Evaluation in practice: artifact-based requirements engineering and scenarios in smart mobility domains

Context: In the context of the research and development project ARAMiS, multiple partners from research and industry are collaborating in the development of new methods and technologies in the field of multicore systems. Goal: We designed and executed studies for evaluating the results of the ARAMiS sub-project responsible for requirements engineering: an artifact-based requirements engineering approach, its tooling, and a cross-domain scenario. Method: This evaluation was performed along with the dissemination of the results in the project. The evaluation included two studies aimed at collecting the opinions of the project participants regarding the requirements engineering results from the viewpoints of industry and research. Results: The mainly positive results showed us that the different parts of the requirements engineering approach in this project are being accepted. Conclusions: Nonetheless, especially the results for the scenario revealed some weaknesses, such as the so-called "ARAMiS gap", i.e., a gap between the high-level requirements engineering artifacts and the detailed engineering artifacts.

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