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title: >- | ||
Analysis of the State and Evolution of Empirical Research in Requirements Engineering | ||
Analysis of the State and Evolution of Empirical Research | ||
in Requirements Engineering | ||
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If you use this software, please cite it using the | ||
metadata from this file. | ||
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family-names: Karras | ||
email: [email protected] | ||
affiliation: >- | ||
TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science | ||
and Technology | ||
TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and | ||
Technology | ||
orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5336-6899' | ||
repository-code: 'https://github.com/okarras/EmpiRE-Analysis' | ||
abstract: >- | ||
[Background.] Empirical research in requirements | ||
engineering (RE) is a constantly evolving topic, with a | ||
growing number of publications. Several papers address | ||
this topic using literature reviews to provide a snapshot | ||
of its "current" state and evolution. However, these | ||
papers have never built on or updated earlier ones, | ||
resulting in overlap and redundancy. The underlying | ||
problem is the unavailability of data from earlier works. | ||
Researchers need technical infrastructures to conduct | ||
sustainable literature reviews. [Aims.] We examine the use | ||
of the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) as such an | ||
infrastructure to build and publish an initial Knowledge | ||
Graph of Empirical research in RE (KG-EmpiRE) whose data | ||
is openly available. Our long-term goal is to continuously | ||
maintain KG-EmpiRE with the research community to | ||
synthesize a comprehensive, up-to-date, and long-term | ||
available overview of the state and evolution of empirical | ||
research in RE. [Method.] We conduct a literature review | ||
using the ORKG to build and publish KG-EmpiRE which we | ||
evaluate against competency questions derived from a | ||
published vision of empirical research in software | ||
(requirements) engineering for 2020 -- 2025. [Results.] | ||
From 570 papers of the IEEE International Requirements | ||
Engineering Conference (2000 -- 2022), we extract and | ||
analyze data on the reported empirical research and answer | ||
16 out of 77 competency questions. These answers show a | ||
positive development towards the vision, but also the need | ||
for future improvements. [Conclusions.] The ORKG is a | ||
ready-to-use and advanced infrastructure to organize data | ||
from literature reviews as knowledge graphs. The resulting | ||
knowledge graphs make the data openly available and | ||
maintainable by research communities, enabling sustainable | ||
literature reviews. | ||
keywords: | ||
- Python | ||
- Jupyter notebook | ||
- Analysis | ||
- Empirical research | ||
- Requirements engineering | ||
license: MIT | ||
date-released: '2023-06-26' |