INTELLIREQ: Intelligent Techniques for Software Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering is considered as one of the most critical phases of a software development project. Low-quality requirements are a major reason for the failure of a project. Consequently, techniques are needed that help to improve the support of stakeholders in the development of requirements models as well as in the process of deciding about the corresponding release plans. In this paper we introduce the INTELLIREQ Requirements Engineering environment. This environment is based on different recommendation approaches that support stakeholders in requirements-related activities such as definition, quality assurance, reuse, and release planning. We provide an overview of recommendation approaches integrated in INTELLIREQ and report results of empirical studies that show in which way recommenders can improve the quality of Requirements Engineering processes.

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