Workshop summary second international workshop on requirements engineering: foundation of software quality

As achieving high quality means the realization of customers needs, requirements engineering (RE) is the most crucial phase within software development. During RE not only the functional requirements but also the so-called 'non-functional' requirements of the planned software system have to be elicited from the customer and represented in a requirements document in order to provide the software designer with a complete and correct specification. Conventional RE methods normally support only parts of this process or help stating only specific kinds of requirements.These methodological problems are the prime motivation for the REFSQ workshop series held in conjunction with the CAiSE Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. In order to find solutions which handle the described deficiencies it is the goal of this workshop series to improve the understanding of the relations between RE and software quality.This year's workshop, REFSQ'95, was held in conjunction with CAiSE'95 in Jyvaskyla, Finland on June 12th and 13th 1995.After the reviewing process we accepted 12 out of the 18 papers submitted. Finally, 11 full and position papers were presented at REFSQ'95 and discussed with the 15 participants (including the organizers). The participants came from 9 different countries.