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Challenges and Solutions in Global Requirements Engineering – A Literature Survey

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Requirements engineering is a core part of the software engineering lifecycle with tremendous leverage on software development success. It becomes particularly difficult in the context of global software engineering due to the need to coordinate many different stakeholders in a distributed setting. In this paper we survey some main results in global requirements engineering. We will address both the development of systems with internationally distributed customers as well as the situation of globally distributed development.

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  1. Software Systems Engineering, Institute of Computer Science, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

    Klaus Schmid

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  1. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Dietmar Winkler

  2. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Stefan Biffl

  3. Software Quality Lab GmbH, Linz, Austria

    Johannes Bergsmann

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Schmid, K. (2014). Challenges and Solutions in Global Requirements Engineering – A Literature Survey. In: Winkler, D., Biffl, S., Bergsmann, J. (eds) Software Quality. Model-Based Approaches for Advanced Software and Systems Engineering. SWQD 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03602-1_6

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