Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: Comparing Practices in Brazil and Germany
This addresses the challenge of improving requirements engineering practices for software development teams, but it is incremental as it builds on existing knowledge without introducing new methods.
The study compared requirements engineering problems in companies in Brazil and Germany, finding that human interaction is essential for eliciting and specifying high-quality requirements across different contexts.
As part of the Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering (NaPiRE) initiative, researchers compared problems that companies in Brazil and Germany encountered during requirements engineering (RE). The key takeaway was that in RE, human interaction is necessary for eliciting and specifying high-quality requirements, regardless of country, project type, or company size.