RE Theory Meets Software Practice: Lessons from the Software Development Trenches

Based on our recent experience in four projects, each focused on either security-critical or safety-critical software, this paper evaluates several notions, widely held by RE researchers, for their utility in practical software development. It describes four notions which in our view work in practice and five others which do not.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: RE
• Authors: Constance L. Heitmeyer, Ralph D. Jeffords, Ramesh Bharadwaj, Myla Archer
• Keywords: Practical Software Development, RE 2007, RE Researchers, Safety-critical Software, Software Engineering