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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Do We Preach What We Practice? Investigating the Practical Relevance of Requirements Engineering Syllabi - The IREB Case
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Daniel Méndez
  • Xavier Franch
  • Norbert Seyff
  • Michael Felderer
  • Martin Glinz
  • Marcos Kalinowski
  • Andreas Vogelsang
  • Stefan Wagner
  • Stan Bühne
  • Kim Lauenroth
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Event Title 22nd Iberoamerican Conference on Software Engineering (CIBSE 2019)
Event Type conference
Event Location Havanna, Cuba
Event Start Date April 22 - 2019
Event End Date April 26 - 2019
Place of Publication Havanna
Publisher arXiv.org
Abstract Text Nowadays, there exist a plethora of different educational syllabi for Requirements Engineering (RE), all aiming at incorporating practically relevant educational units (EUs). Many of these syllabi are based, in one way or the other, on the syllabi provided by the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB), a non-profit organisation devoted to standardised certification programs for RE. IREB syllabi are developed by RE experts and are, thus, based on the assumption that they address topics of practical relevance. However, little is known about to what extent practitioners actually perceive those contents as useful. We have started a study to investigate the relevance of the EUs included in the IREB Foundation Level certification programme. In the first phase reported in this paper, we have surveyed practitioners mainly from DACH countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) who participated in the IREB certification. Later phases will widen the scope both by including other countries and by not requiring IREB-certified participants. The results shall foster a critical reflection on the practical relevance of EUs built upon the de-facto standard syllabus of IREB.
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Official URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01822
Other Identification Number merlin-id:17840
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