Context & motivation] Growing software companies with increasing product complexity face the issue of how to scale up their Requirements Engineering (RE) practices. In market-driven requirements engineering, release planning and scoping decisions are increasingly challenging as the size and complexity increases. [Problem] This paper presents initial results of an ongoing exploratory, qualitative investigation of three market-driven, industrial cases with the objective of increasing our understanding of challenges in scaling up requirements engineering and how these challenges are addressed by the studied companies. [Results] Through 13 interviews in three companies, requirements engineering scalability issues are explored related to scoping and the structure of RE artifacts. [Contribution] The main contribution are findings related to increasing RE scale based on interpretations of the experienced interviewees' views.
The work of Wnuk et al. REF presents the results of 13 interviews in three companies with the objective of understanding the challenges in scoping large RE projects and how these challenges are addressed by the studied companies.
Scaling up requirements engineering - exploring the challenges of increasing size and complexity in market-driven software development
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Computer Science