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AbbreviationREFSQ
DisciplineRequirements Engineering
Publication details
PublisherREFSQ
History1994–
FrequencyAnnual

The International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ) is a conference that focuses on the field of requirements engineering (RE) and software quality. The conference, permanently based in Europe[1] , is held annually and attracts researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government who are interested in the latest advances and best practices in these fields.

Structure[edit]

The goals of REFSQ are to advance Requirements Engineering (RE) knowledge by providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to expose their work to the RE community, through active and open discussions that are stimulated by paper presentations and by publishing of proceedings in a readily-accessible form by a recognised publisher of computer science.[2]

REFSQ seeks contributions which report on novel ideas and techniques that enhance the quality of RE’s products and processes, as well as reflections on current research. The conference has a long tradition of being a highly structured and interactive forum. In addition to the scientific program, REFSQ also features an interactive Industry Track, Workshops, Posters and Tool demos, Doctoral Symposium and a Journal First Track.[3]

History[edit]

The first REFSQ ‘94 workshop was held in conjunction with the CAiSE ‘94 Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering in Utrecht, The Netherlands on June 6th and 7th 1994. The founding organizers were Gernot Starke, Klaus Pohl and Peter Peters. The workshop themes were covered in three sessions: Non-functional requirements, Requirements traceability and Structuring requirements engineering.[4]

In 2006, after eleven editions of being organized as a workshop in conjunction with CAiSE[2], REFSQ was held as a working conference for the first time. This came along with changes to the format, such as attendance to REFSQ being opened to non-authors, the program being extended, including a panel session and a special “greenhouse” category for papers describing maturing research, and special effort was made to invite industrial papers and attendants.[1]

Starting in a 1999, a tradition was established that each edition of REFSQ should highlight a "Special a Theme", inviting with particular emphasis papers on that specific theme.[5]

Organization[edit]

REFSQ is governed and organised by the Steering Committee (SC), which delegates the responsibilities for the scientific program to the Program Chairs of each edition. Other components of the Steering Committee are Industry Program Chairs, Local Organisations and Background Organisations.

The SC Chair and Vice-Chair solicit bids for future REFSQ locations, including local and/or background organizations. The SC Chair and Vice-Chair present the elicited proposal(s) to the SC. The decision is made by an explicit vote by the SC.

The location for REFSQ instances is chosen by the SC after the Chair and Vice-Chair present the proposals within Europe. It should be at least two instances of REFSQ in advance in order to allow fixing the contracts with hotels etc.[6]

Current Steering Committee Membership[edit]

There are currently 12 SC members, of which the two chairs are Anna Perini (Program Chair 2017, SC Vice Chair 2020-2021, and SC Chair 2022-2024, expires 2025), and Fabiano Dalpiaz (Program Chair 2021 and SC Vice-Chair 2021-2024, expires 2025).[7]

Ratings[edit]

The conference has a 'B' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences and a 'B3' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education.[8]

List of Conferences[edit]

Past and future REFSQ conferences include[9]:

Year Conference City Country Program Chairs Special Theme
2023 29th REFSQ Barcelona Spain Spain Alessio Ferrari, Birgit Penzenstadler Human Values in Requirements Engineering
2022 28th REFSQ Birmingham United Kingdom United Kingdom Vincenzo Gervasi, Andreas Vogelsang Explainability in Requirements Engineering
2021 27th REFSQ Essen Germany Essen Nazim Madhavji, Liliana Pasquale Ethics as a cornerstone of Requirements Engineering
2020 26th REFSQ Pisa Italy Italy Paola Spoletini, Fabiano Dalpiaz RE and Cyber-Physical Systems
2019 25th REFSQ Essen Germany Germany Eric Knauss, Michael Goedicke Laying the Foundation for Speed and Flexibility in Development
2018 24th REFSQ Utrecht Netherlands The Netherlands Erik Kamsties, Jennifer Horkoff RE and Digital Transformation
2017 23th REFSQ Essen Germany Germany Paul Gruenbacher, Anna Perini My RE
2016 22nd REFSQ Gothenburg Sweden Sweden Oscar Pastor, Maya Daneva Understanding an ever changing world through the right requirements
2015 21st REFSQ Essen Germany Germany Samuel Fricker, Kurt Schneider I heard it first at REFSQ
2014 20th REFSQ Essen Germany Germany Camille Salinesi, Inge van de Weerd Games for RE and RE for Games
2013 19th REFSQ Essen Germany Germany Joerg Doerr, Andreas L. Opdahl Interdisciplinary RE
2012 18th REFSQ Essen Germany Germany Daniela Damian, Björn Regnell Requirements engineering for enterprise systems
2011 17th REFSQ Essen Germany Germany Daniel Berry, Xavier Franch /
2010 16th REFSQ Essen Germany Germany Roel Wieringa, Anne Persson /
2009 15th REFSQ Amsterdam Netherlands The Netherlands Patrick Heymans, Martin Glinz Value and risk
2008 14th REFSQ Montpellier France France Colette Rolland, Barbara Paech Fitness of Requirements Engineering
2007 13th REFSQ Trondheim Norway Norway Pete Sawyer, Barbara Paech, Patrick Heymans RE and innovation in software engineering
2006 12th REFSQ Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Vincenzo Gervasi, Pete Sawyer, Barbara Paech /
2005 11th REFSQ Porto Portugal Portugal Erik Kamsties, Vincenzo Gervasi, Pete Sawyer /
2004 10th REFSQ Riga Latvia Latvia Björn Regnell, Erik Kamsties, Vincenzo Gervasi Quality Requirements as Business Advantage
2003 9th REFSQ Velden/Klagenfurt Austria Austria Camille Salinesi, Björn Regnell, Erik Kamsties Integration of Requirements Engineering into Software Engineering
2002 8th REFSQ Essen Germany Germany Camille Ben Achour - Salinesi, Björn Regnell New ideas and ground-breaking on-going research : RE innovation at the service of Software Quality
2001 7th REFSQ Interlaken Switzerland Switzerland Camille Ben Achour - Salinesi, Andreas L. Opdahl, Matti Rossi Understanding and Improving RE Processes for Higher Software Quality
2000 6th REFSQ Stockholm Sweden Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, Klaus Pohl, Matti Rossi Consolidating the Field - Method Engineering and Meta-Modelling Approaches to Requirements Engineering
1999 5th REFSQ Heidelberg Germany Germany Andreas L. Opdahl, Klaus Pohl Commercial Off-the-Shelf Systems
1998 4th REFSQ Pisa Italy Italy Eric Dubois, Andreas L. Opdahl, Klaus Pohl /
1997 3rd REFSQ Barcelona Spain Spain Eric Dubois, Andreas L. Opdahl, Klaus Pohl /
No REFSQ in 1996
1995 2nd REFSQ Jyväskylä Finland Finland Klaus Pohl, Peter Peters /
1994 1st REFSQ Utrecht Netherlands The Netherlands Klaus Pohl, Gernot Starke, Peter Peters /

Best paper award[edit]

The conferences always feature an award for the best paper. The papers are reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.[6]

Year Authors Title
2022 Nagadivya Balasubramaniam, Marjo Kauppinen, Kari Hiekkanen, Sari Kujala Transparency and Explainability of AI Systems: Ethical Guidelines in Practice
2021 Jannik Fischbach, Julian Frattini, Arjen Spaans, Maximilian Kummeth, Andreas Vogelsang, Daniel Mendez, Michael Unterkalmsteiner Automatic Detection of Causality in Requirement Artifacts: The CiRA Approach
2020 Nagadivya Balasubramaniam, Marjo Kauppinen, Kari Hiekkanen, Sari Kujala Using Eye Tracking Data to Improve Requirements Specification Use
2018 Sofija Hotomski, Eya Ben Charrada, Martin Glinz Keeping Evolving Requirements and Acceptance Tests Aligned with Automatically Generated Guidance
2016 Nicolas Sannier, Morayo Adedjouma, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel Briand Automated Classification of Legal Cross References Based on Semantic Intent
2015 Olga Liskin How Artifacts Support and Impede Requirements Communication
2014 Zhuoqun Yang, Zhi Li, Yunchuan Chen, Zhi Jin A Systematic Literature Review of Requirements Modeling and Analysis for Self-adaptive Systems
2013 Nelly Bencomo, Amel Belaggoun Supporting Decision-Making for Self-Adaptive Systems: From Goal Models to Dynamic Decision Networks
2012 Eltjo R. Poort, Nick Martens, Inge van de Weerd, Hans van Vliet How Architects See Non-Functional Requirements: Beware of Modifiability
2011 Soren Lauesen, Mohammad A. Kuhail Use Cases versus Task Descriptions

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Springer REFSQ Publication History

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Summary of the 12th Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'06)" (PDF). 2006.
  2. ^ a b Regnell, Björn; Kamsties, Erik; Gervasi, Vincenzo (2005-11-01). "Guest editorial: 10th anniversary workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'2004)". Requirements Engineering. 10 (4): 243–246. doi:10.1007/s00766-005-0015-4. ISSN 1432-010X.
  3. ^ 29th International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality Website
  4. ^ "Workshop Summary First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation of Software Quality (REFSQ'94)". ResearchGate. August 1994.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "REFSQ 1999 Website".
  6. ^ a b https://2023.refsq.org/getImage/orig/REFSQ-Charter-v3.0.pdf Charter of the International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
  7. ^ "REFSQ 2023 - Steering Committee - REFSQ 2023". 2023.refsq.org. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  8. ^ Conference Ranks
  9. ^ Past and future RE conferences list


Category:Software engineering conferences

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