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Requirements attributes play an important role in storing and managing meta-information about requirements. This paper presents the results of a literature review and two industrial case studies performed at two large organizations developing software-intensive products for a global market. We performed seven snowballing iterations and identified 18 studies where we extracted requirements attributes. Next, we compare these identified attributes with those of two large companies developing software-intensive products for a global market. We found common attributes that describe stakeholders and roles, support change management, tracing and communication, tracking the status, and estimating the business value of requirements.
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Lech Madeyski worked on the paper during his research internship at BTH at Prof. Mattsson’s invitation.
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Wnuk, K., Madeyski, L., Abdeen, W., Penmetsa, S., Lingampalli, N. (2024). An Empirical Analysis of the Usage of Requirements Attributes in Requirements Engineering Research and Practice. In: Nguyen, N.T., et al. Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14811. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70819-0_3
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