ABOUT

Requirements Engineering (RE) can be defined as the area of Software Engineering concerned with the discovery and documentation of the purpose of a system regarding requesters' needs. Requirements play a major role in the quality of a system, both for its specification and for its analysis. Fit-for-purpose is arguably the main quality criterion for any system, a system’s lifecycle and its associated work products. They usually need to fulfil quality criteria (e.g., from engineering or assurance standards), and quality requirements (aka non-functional requirements, such as usability, performance, reliability, security, etc.) that are essential for system success. RE usually further needs to adhere to quality principles itself, such as the correctness, completeness, and consistency for a requirements specification. In general, quality is often seen as conformance to some requirements, but the difficulty of handling and demonstrating this conformance is increasing as a result of the growth in systems’ complexity and size and of new system application for a wide range of daily aspects (e.g., transport, healthcare, and energy). Quality is becoming a moving and evolving target in the scope of RE and thus needs new means to manage it.

We seek novel contributions on how to leverage ICT systems quality through RE strategies, methods, techniques and tools, as well as empirical studies and experience reports that present how RE contributes to system quality.

TOPICS

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation

• Requirements verification and validation

• Requirements management: evolution, traceability, prioritization, and negotiation

• Non-functional requirements

• Quality requirements for specific areas, e.g., ontological quality requirements, among many others

• Evaluation of the quality of requirements

• Strategies, methods and processes for assuring the quality of requirements

• Alignment of requirements to information need/business goals and processes

• Alignment of requirements to system architecture

• Risk management in the context of RE

• Requirements-based project management and cost estimation

• Human, social, cultural, and cognitive factors in RE

• RE in the context of specific development approaches, e.g., SPL, MDD, SOA AOSD, and agile

• Regulatory compliance to functional and non-functional requirements

TRACK COMMITTEE

Track Co-Chairs: Luiz Marcio Cysneiros, York University, Toronto, Canada

Vera Werneck , State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Program Committee:

• Ambrosio Toval, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

• Beatriz Marín, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

• Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada

• Elena Navarro, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain

• Emilio Insfran, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

• Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada

• Gabriel García-Mireles, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico

• Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

• Isabel Brito, Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Portugal

• Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

• João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

• Johnny Marques, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil

• José Delavara, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

• Juan Pablo Carvallo, Universidad del Azuay, Ecuador

• Julio Leite, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• Krzysztof Wnuk, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden

• Lidia López, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

• Luis Olsina, National University of La Pampa, Argentina,

• Luiz Cysneiros, York University, Canada

• Marcela Ruiz, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

• Maria Lencastre, Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco, Brazil

• Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

• Nelly Condori-Fernández, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

• Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada

• Vera Werneck, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PREVIOUS TRACK EDITIONS

QUATIC 2020, QUATIC 2019, QUATIC 2018, QUATIC 2016, QUATIC 2014, QUATIC 2012, QUATIC 2010