REFraming Elicitation

2^nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Frameworks

Workshop at RE 2023

The REFrame workshop is a forum for discussing questions and exchanging experiences concerning frameworks for requirements engineering (RE, RE frameworks). Special focus of REFrame 2/2023 is requirements elicitation.

The workshop brings together a diverse spectrum of people from scientific research and industrial practice. The workshop format is highly interactive, combining inspiring presentations, in-depth breakout sessions, and lively discussions.

Workshop results will include a collection of important requirements elicitation frameworks (methods, techniques, best practices etc.), which shall later be evolved into a web-based compendium.

REFrame 2/2023, “REFraming Elicitation”, will take place at RE 2023, the 31^st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 2023, 04–08 September 2023, in Hannover, Germany.

Main Objective

Main objective of the workshop is to investigate and discuss requirements elicitation frameworks (e.g., techniques, methods, and practices). So, the key concepts addressed in the workshop are software requirements frameworks and requirements elicitation:

The workshop understands a framework as a structure for a topic area that collects elements of the topic area and relates them to each other. This includes for instance techniques, methods, and tools. A framework is semi-complete and must be supplemented and/or adapted context-specifically for a concrete application. 

Elicitation is the process of seeking, capturing, and consolidating requirements from available sources, potentially including the re-construction or creation of requirements.

Over time, as software and software engineering (SE) processes have evolved, the challenges of elicitation and the techniques and methods used have evolved, too. The workshop aims at understanding better what elicitation means today and how it needs to improve in the future.

In this sense the workshop will also consider the main theme of RE 2023: “Redefining RE: Challenging RE Perceptions, Boundaries, and Topics”. At best, it will provide a vivid illustration of what this theme can mean specifically to the field of requirements elicitation.

REFrame Community

The workshop is related to other ongoing activities that provide a community and an environment supportive of the workshop event. These include a sister workshop at REFSQ 2023 and a working group of the German Computer Society (GI, Gesellschaft für Informatik).

The REFSQ 2023 workshop addresses RE frameworks in general and provides the ground for the upcoming specific focus on elicitation. The working group provides results that can help to jump-start workshop discussions. On the other hand, the workshop is expected to provide valuable contributions onto which the working group can follow up further.

Important Links

Workshop homepage: https://reframe-community.org/ws2-2023/

RE 2023 homepage: https://conf.researchr.org/home/RE-2023

REFrame community homepage: https://reframe-community.org