REFSQ 2025
Mon 7 - Thu 10 April 2025 Spain

This program is tentative and subject to change.

As the boundaries of the Requirements Engineering (RE) discipline keep expanding, deciding on which contents a course or module should include has become challenging. In absence of an agreed-upon syllabus for RE higher education, we take a step back and conduct a study that aims at identifying threshold concepts: a subset of the core RE concepts that, when mastered, are expected to let the learner make a leap in the understanding of the discipline. Through a two-phase mixed-methods design, consisting of individual semi-structured interviews followed by two focus groups to achieve consensus, we identified two threshold concepts as well as seven candidate ones. The two threshold concepts pertain to pillars of the RE discipline: understanding that RE is a co-creation process between analysts and stakeholders, and the importance of eliciting goals for uncovering the stakeholders’ true needs.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 9 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change

11:00 - 12:30
Education & Training - Session ET1Education & Training at B3 - Teleensenyament
11:00
30m
Talk
Challenges of Requirements Engineering Education in Higher Education: Insights from an Interview Study with Educators in Switzerland
Education & Training
Anthea Moravánszky University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons / University of Szeged
11:30
30m
Talk
Toward Threshold Concepts for Teaching Requirements Engineering in Higher Education
Education & Training
Marian Biekart Utrecht University, Fabiano Dalpiaz Utrecht University
12:00
30m
Paper
Teaching Requirements Engineering to Robotics Students Through Reverse Engineering: An Experience Report
Education & Training
Jeshwitha Jesus Raja Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Shaza Elbishbishy , Jennifer Brings , Marian Daun Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt