The data collection of the third replication is closed.
First results will be announced soon.
Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering (NaPiRE) constitutes a globally distributed family of surveys on Requirements Engineering (RE) practices and problems, initiated by Daniel Méndez and Stefan Wagner in 2012. It is nowadays conducted by an internationally distributed alliance of software engineering researchers with the goal to help the research community getting a better understanding of general industrial trends in Requirements Engineering (RE) and problems faced therein. NaPiRE is an academic (non-profit and open) endeavour which aims at establishing the first holistic theory on industrial practices and problems in RE.
We started NaPiRE by elaborating an initial theory via synthesising results of existing, isolated studies in RE and running initial surveys in Germany and the Netherlands. Soon, NaPiRE became a large-scale and long-term collaboration between members of the empirical software engineering research community which now runs NaPiRE as a bi-yearly family of replicated surveys. The research initiative is run by the community with the purpose of serving the community and constitutes the first and largest of its kind.
Each survey replication strengthens the initial theory and extends it with a particular focus on:
- the status quo in company practices and industrial experiences,
- problems and how those problems manifest themselves in the process, and
- what potential success factors for RE are.
To reach a reliable theory in RE which serves the community to steer problem-driven research, we jointly conduct our surveys in a distributed and bi-yearly replicated manner while committing ourselves to the core principles and values described below.
Further information can also be taken from the NaPiRE Manifesto.
- D. Mendez Fernandez. Supporting Requirements Engineering Research that Industry Needs: The Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering Initiative
In: IEEE Software, 2018
Preprint: - D. Mendez Fernandez, M. Tiessler, M. Kalinowski, M. Felderer, M. Kuhrmann
On evidence-based Risk Management in Requirements Engineering
In: Proc. of 10th Software Quality Days (SWQD ’18), Springer, 2018
Vienna, Austria
Preprint: - Wagner, D. Mendez Fernandez, M. Felderer, M. Kalinowski.
Requirements Engineering Practice and Problems in Agile Projects: Results from an International Survey.
In: Proc of the 20th Iberoamerican Congress of Software Engineering (CibSE ’17), Springer, 2017
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Preprint: - M. Kalinowski, P. Curty, A. Paes, A. Ferreira, R. Spinola, D. Mendez Fernandez, M. Felderer, S. Wagner
Supporting Defect Causal Analysis in Practice with Cross-Company Data on Causes of Requirements Engineering Problems
In: Proc. of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (SEIP track), IEEE, 2017.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Preprint: - D. Mendez Fernandez, S. Wagner, M. Kalinowski, M. Felderer, P. Mafra, A. Vetrò, T. Conte, M.-T. Christiansson, D. Greer, C. Lassenius, T. Männistö, M. Nayebi, M. Oivo, B. Penzenstadler, D. Pfahl, R. Prikladnicki, G. Ruhe, A. Schekelmann, S. Sen, R. Spinola, J.L. de la Vara, A. Tuzcu, R. Wieringa
Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: Contemporary Problems, Causes, and Effects in Practice
In: Empirical Software Engineering, Springer, 2016
Preprint: - P. Mafra, M. Kalinowski, D. Mendez Fernandez, M. Felderer, S. Wagner
Towards Guidelines for Preventing Critical Requirements Engineering Problems
In: Proc. of the 42nd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA’16), IEEE, 2016
Limassol, Cyprus
Preprint: - D. Mendez Fernandez, S. Wagner, M. Kalinowski, A. Schekelmann, A. Tuzcu, T. Conte, R. Spinola, R. Prikladnicki
Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: Comparing Practices in Brazil and Germany
In: IEEE Software Voice of Evidence, 2015
Preprint: - D. Mendez Fernandez, S. Wagner
Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: A Design for a Global Family of Surveys and First Results from Germany
In: Information and Software Technology, Elsevier, 2014
Preprint: - M. Kalinowski, M. Felderer, T. Conte, R. Spinola, R. Prikladnicki, D. Winkler, D. Mendez Fernandez, S. Wagner
Preventing Incomplete/Hidden Requirements: Reflections on Survey Data from Austria and Brazil
In: Proc. of the Software Quality Days (SWQD ’15), Springer, 2015
Vienna, Austria – Awarded as Best Paper
Preprint: - M. Kalinowski, R. Oliveira Spinola, T. Conte, R. Prikladnicki, D. Mendez Fernandez, S. Wagner
Towards Building Knowledge on Causes of Critical Requirements Engineering Problems
In: Proc. 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), 2015
Pittsburgh, USA
Preprint: - D. Mendez Fernandez, S. Wagner
Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: Design of a Global Family of Surveys and First Results from Germany
In: Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE ’13), ACM, 2013.
Porto de Galinhas, Brazil – Nominated as Best Paper (w/ special issue invitation for Information and Software Technology)
Preprint:| Further material:
- Raw Data Set 2013 (Figshare)
- Raw Data Set 2014 (Figshare)