CrowdRE 2015 - The First International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering

The rise of mobile, social and cloud apps pose new challenges and opportunities to the field of RE. Thousands or even millions of stakeholders communicate with one another, thereby forming a distributed and heterogeneous group, i.e. a ‘crowd’ that exchanges wishes, needs, innovative ideas and problems they encountered while using apps. Traditional requirements engineering (RE) techniques have difficulties scaling up in such ‘crowd’ settings. The unique opportunities of involving larger numbers of stakeholders motivated researchers and practitioners to start working at appropriate methods and tools, but we see the need for more tailored and holistic approaches for crowd-based RE. The workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE) therefore aims to play a pivotal role in bringing researcher experts and practitioners together, and provide them with a platform to exchange their visions on this subject. A central topic will be how requirements are best elicited, documented, validated, negotiated and managed in a setting that involves a crowd.
Sebastian Adam, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Norbert Seyff, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany