REFSQ Workshop
REFSQ (Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality) is a
highly interactive forum for researchers and practitioners to address
the problem of ensuring software quality through requirements
engineering (RE). The last decade has seen improvements in our
understanding of RE with better practices supported by better
techniques, methods and tools. Despite these successes, many
quality-related problems remain, while new challenges for RE constantly
emerge. REFSQ seeks reports of innovative work in RE that contributes
to the achievement of higher software quality. In particular, we
encourage people from the requirements engineering, software
engineering, information systems, and embedded systems fields to
present their approaches to RE.
REFSQ has become the second biggest event in requirements engineering after ICRE and ISRE merged in 2002. I was program co-chair for
- REFSQ'03 in Velden, Austria
- REFSQ'04 in Riga, Latvia
- REFSQ'05 in Porto, Portugal
and I was a PC member of
- REFSQ'02 in Essen
- REFSQ'06 in Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
- REFSQ'07 in Trondheim, Norway
- REFSQ'08 in Montpellier, France
In order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of REFSQ in 2004, four papers were invited with the aim of giving a 10 year perspective on requirements engineering as a foundation for software quality. A free booklet on REFSQ’s 10th Anniversary in 2004 (100 pages) is available, containing:
- Workshop Summary
Björn Regnell, Erik Kamsties, Vincenzo Gervasi - Anniversary Session 1: Quality and Relevance
- Barbara Paech, Daniel Kerkow. Non-Functional Requirements Engineering — Quality is Essential
- Sjaak Brinkkemper. Requirements Engineering Research the Industry is (and is not) Waiting For
- Anniversary Session 2: Retrospect and Outlook
- Vincenzo Gervasi, Erik Kamsties, Björn Regnell, Camille Ben Achour-Salinesi. Ten Years of REFSQ: A Quantitative Analysis
- Andreas L. Opdahl, Eric Dubois, Klaus Pohl. Ten Years of REFSQ: Outcomes and Outlooks
In January 2008, Elsevier's Information and Software Technology (IST) journal contains a section with the best papers of REFSQ'05 and REFSQ'06 (Volume 50, issues 1-2, p 51-129, January 2008).
More information about future and past REFSQs is available at www.refsq.org.
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