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Systematic reviews in requirements engineering: a tertiary study

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posted on 2024-06-12, 15:39 authored by M Bano, D Zowghi, N Ikram
© 2014 IEEE. There has been an increasing interest in conducting Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) among Requirements Engineering (RE) researchers in recent years. However, so far there have been no tertiary studies conducted to provide a comprehensive overview of these published SLR in RE. In this paper we present a tertiary study of SLR that focus solely on RE related topics by following the guidelines of Evidence Based Software Engineering. We have conducted both automated search of major online sources and manual search of the RE and SLR related conferences and journals. Our tertiary study has identified 53 distinct systematic reviews published from 2006 to 2014 and reported in 64 publications. We have assessed the resulting SLR for their quality, and coverage of specific RE related topics thus identifying some gaps. We have observed that the quality of SLR in RE has been decreasing over the recent years. There is a strong need to replicate some of these SLR to increase the reliability of their results for future RE research.

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Pagination

9-16

Location

Karlskrona, Sweden

Start date

2014-08-25

End date

2014-08-25

ISBN-13

9781479963379

Language

eng

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E1.1 Full written paper - refereed

Title of proceedings

EmpiRE 2014 : IEEE 4th International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering

Event

Empirical Requirements Engineering. International Workshop (4th : 2014 : Karlskrona, Sweden)

Publisher

IEEE

Place of publication

Piscataway, N.J.

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