@article {11390487420160301, title = {Co-located and distributed natural-language requirements specification: traditional versus reuse-based techniques.}, journal = {Journal of Software: Evolution \& Process}, volume = {28}, number = {3}, year = {2016}, pages = {205 - 227}, abstract = {Requirements Engineering (RE) includes processes intended to elicit, analyse, specify and validate systems and software requirements throughout the software life cycle. Mastering the principles of RE is key to achieving the goals of better, cheaper and quicker systems and software development projects. It is also important to be prepared to work with remote teammates, as distributed and global projects are becoming more common. This paper presents an experiment with a total of 31 students from two universities in Spain and Morocco who were assigned to either a co-located or a distributed team. Both traditional and reuse-based requirements specification techniques were applied by the participants to produce requirements documents. Their outcomes were then analysed, and the approaches were compared from the point of view of their effect on a set of performance-based and perception-based variables in co-located and distributed settings. We found significant differences in only productivi}, keywords = {Computer software, Computer software development, experiment, global software development, internationalisation, Requirements engineering, requirements reuse, requirements specification, Software engineering, software engineering education, Specifications}, issn = {20477473}, url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=113904874\&site=ehost-live}, author = {de Gea, Juan M. Carrillo and Nicolas, Joaquin and Fernandez Aleman, Jose L. and Toval, Ambrosio and Ouhbi, Sofia and Idri, Ali} } @article {10260344020150601, title = {Requirements engineering education: a systematic mapping study.}, journal = {Requirements Engineering}, volume = {20}, number = {2}, year = {2015}, pages = {119 - 138}, abstract = {Requirements engineering (RE) has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers and practitioners in recent years. Requirements engineering education (REE) is therefore an important undertaking if the field is to have professionals who are capable of successfully accomplishing software projects. This increasing interest demands that academia should provide software engineering students with a solid foundation in the subject matter. This paper aims to identify and to present the current research on REE that is available at present, and to select useful approaches and needs for future research. A systematic mapping study was therefore performed to classify the selected studies into five classification criteria: research type, empirical type, contribution type, RE activity, and curricula. A total of 79 papers were selected and classified according to these criteria. The results of this systematic mapping study are discussed, and a list of advice obtained from the REE literature fo}, keywords = {Computer software, education, Engineering {\textendash} Study \& teaching, Mappings (Mathematics), Requirements engineering, Software engineering, Software requirements, Systematic mapping study}, issn = {09473602}, url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=102603440\&site=ehost-live}, author = {Ouhbi, Sofia and Idri, Ali and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, Jos{\'e} and Toval, Ambrosio} }