EmpiRE 2013 - 3rd International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE)

Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE)
http://selab.fbk.eu/empire2013
Tayana Conte, UFAM, Brasil
Maya Daneva, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Alessandro Marchetto, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Sabrina Marczak, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul University, Brasil
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Requirements Engineering (RE) has become a well-established discipline where a wide range of approaches, techniques and tools have been proposed. Systematic attempts to evaluate and compare usefulness, effectiveness and usability of such proposals resulted in a growing attention to methods for empirical assessment. Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) aims at applying the empirical research methodologies to the software engineering field. In other terms, it aims at studying and proposing qualitative and quantitative methods to collect and analyze evidence that helps evaluating software engineering approaches, techniques and tools. Experiments, surveys, case studies, action research studies, hence, become indispensable and valuable ways to check ideas and proposals with respect to the reality, thus allowing to understand their actual value, cost and benefits in particular contexts. The objective of the Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE) is to increase the cross-fertilization of ESE methods and RE by actively encouraging the exchange of ideas to understand why and how the empirical methods from ESE can help to assess and improve existing or new approaches in RE. The targeted outcomes of this workshop include the identification of open research problems and the possible solutions to these problems regarding:
which aspects and properties of RE approaches can be evaluated;
what factors, criteria, and metrics are appropriate;
what experiments can be conducted;
how experiments can be replicated;
what is the role of the user.