Research Directions in Requirements Engineering

TLDR

The paper reviews current requirements engineering research to identify mature areas and highlight emerging hot topics for future systems. The authors survey the state of the art, analyze technologies for elicitation, modeling, and analysis, and review strategies for extending RE research to delineate future research scope.

Abstract

In this paper, we review current requirements engineering (RE) research and identify future research directions suggested by emerging software needs. First, we overview the state of the art in RE research. The research is considered with respect to technologies developed to address specific requirements tasks, such as elicitation, modeling, and analysis. Such a review enables us to identify mature areas of research, as well as areas that warrant further investigation. Next, we review several strategies for performing and extending RE research results, to help delineate the scope of future research directions. Finally, we highlight what we consider to be the "hot" current and future research topics, which aim to address RE needs for emerging systems of the future.