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Requirement engineering (RE) is a fundamental process in software engineering. RE is based on the software requirement specification (SRS) that contain the systems description. It is a crucial basis for the success of every software project to have understandable and complete SRS. Nevertheless it is a still a challenging task due to the problem that most SRS are written in natural language. Informal textual descriptions involve issues like ambiguity, inconsistency or incompleteness. In this case study we address such issues by introducing a special form of reviews to RE process in an industrial environment. We show improvements in the SRS after the Speed-Reviews started and additionally we present expert-opinions about Speed-Reviews. We conclude that Speed-Reviews are an improvement method that lead to more understandable and less ambiguous SRS.
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Pekar, V., Felderer, M., Breu, R., Ebner, M., Winkler, A. (2015). Improving the Requirement Engineering Process with Speed-Reviews: An Industrial Case Study. In: Winkler, D., Biffl, S., Bergsmann, J. (eds) Software Quality. Software and Systems Quality in Distributed and Mobile Environments. SWQD 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13251-8_1
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