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Requirements engineering education: a systematic mapping study

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Requirements engineering (RE) has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers and practitioners in recent years. Requirements engineering education (REE) is therefore an important undertaking if the field is to have professionals who are capable of successfully accomplishing software projects. This increasing interest demands that academia should provide software engineering students with a solid foundation in the subject matter. This paper aims to identify and to present the current research on REE that is available at present, and to select useful approaches and needs for future research. A systematic mapping study was therefore performed to classify the selected studies into five classification criteria: research type, empirical type, contribution type, RE activity, and curricula. A total of 79 papers were selected and classified according to these criteria. The results of this systematic mapping study are discussed, and a list of advice obtained from the REE literature for instructors is provided.

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This research is part of the project PEGASO-PANGEA (TIN2009-13718-C02-02) financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain), and also part of the GEODAS-REQ project (TIN2012-37493-C03-02) financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. This research is also part of the project Software Project Management using Data Mining Techniques, (AP2010-2013), financed by Mohammed V Souissi University (Morocco). The mobility grant of Sofia Ouhbi is financed by the Mediterranean Office for Youth (MOY).

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    Sofia Ouhbi & Ali Idri

  2. Department Informatica y Sistemas, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    José Luis Fernández-Alemán & Ambrosio Toval

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Ouhbi, S., Idri, A., Fernández-Alemán, J.L. et al. Requirements engineering education: a systematic mapping study. Requirements Eng 20, 119–138 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-013-0192-5

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