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A systematic mapping study on creativity in requirements engineering

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João Lemos,

Carina Alves,

Leticia Duboc,

Genaina Nunes RodriguesAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '12: Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2245276.2231945

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In the last years, the field of creativity for requirements engineering has received a growing interest from researchers and practitioners. This paper presents a mapping study to aggregate literature in this field. The motivation is to identify trends and research opportunities in the application of creativity approaches to support the requirements engineering. The mapping study analyzed 46 papers. The results show four main research groups working on creativity in RE. Requirements elicitation is the phase concentrating the majority of studies. The study confirms that creativity techniques enhance creative thinking in requirements activities. However, creative thinking strategies should be fully integrated in current requirements engineering processes, methods and tools.

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