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Retrospective, relevance, and trends of SAC requirements engineering track

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Context: The activities related to Requirements engineering (RE) are some of the most important steps in software development, since the requirements describe what will be provided in a software system in order to fulfill the stakeholders' needs. In this context, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for many RE activities. When studying a research area, it is important to identify the most active groups, topics, the research trends and so forth. Objective: This study aims to investigate how the SAC RE-Track is evolving, by analyzing the papers published in its 8 previous editions. Method: We adopted a research strategy that combines scoping study and systematic review good practices. Results: We investigated the most active countries, institutions and authors, the main topics discussed, the types of the contributions, the conferences and journals that have most referenced SAC RE-Track papers, the phases of the RE process supported by the contributions, the publications with the greatest impact, and the trends in RE. Conclusions: We found 79 papers over the 8 previous SAC RE-Track editions, which were analyzed and discussed.

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SAC '16: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
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DOI:10.1145/2851613
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  2. relevance
  3. requirements engineering
  4. retrospective
  5. scoping study
  6. symposium on applied computing
  7. systematic mapping study
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