Current requirements engineering (RE) practice in industry lacks the availability of an integrated guide that defines and supports the requirements engineering part of embedded system development. Therefore, the RE part of a development project is not as structured and defined as desired. This paper presents results of an experiment validating a RE guide developed by a joint research project between industry and academia. In the experiment carried out for 14 weeks, embedded development projects using the guide were compared to projects following a state-of-the-practice process. The results suggest the guide to be suitable for mastering the RE part of an embedded system development.
This position paper describes the challenges of semiautomatically recovering traceability information in specifications of the automotive domain using information retrieval techniques. Recovering traceability information itself is not an easy task and a combination of factors make this task even harder in the automotive domain. For example: There are huge specifications compared to specifications evaluated in research. The specifications are written in German instead of the English generally reported, which makes it even more complicated.Improving the applied algorithms is one way of tackling these obstacles, better guidance on how and when to employ the semi-automatic recovery methods also play an important role. An approach to tackle these obstacles as well as preliminary findings are described. 1
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