Nazim H. Madhavji: An Emerging Theory on the Interaction Between Requirements Engineering and Systems Architecting Based on a Suite of Exploratory Empirical Studies
- https://www.essi.upc.edu/es/eventos/prova-9-7-2014
- Nazim H. Madhavji: An Emerging Theory on the Interaction Between Requirements Engineering and Systems Architecting Based on a Suite of Exploratory Empirical Studies
- 2014-07-09T12:30:00+02:00
- 2014-07-09T13:30:00+02:00
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09/07/2014 de 12:30 a 13:30 (Europe/Madrid / UTC200)
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A3 101
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Resum: Empirically grounded theory on the interaction between Requirements Engineering (RE) and Systems Architecting (SA) (i.e., the way in which RE and SA have an effect on each other) -- in terms of the human and process factors involved -- is scattered and anecdotal. This lack of grounded theory and deployment in practice may be affecting the way RE and SA processes are executed which, in turn, may be having a negative impact on project time and cost, and quality. Also, this state of affairs may be impeding progress in the domain of RE-SA interaction. Such interaction is orthogonal to mainstream RE and SA development where the traditional RE-to-SA paradigm fits new development projects but breaks down in large-scale and evolutionary development projects. Based on observations in six empirical studies, we construct an emerging theory that describes the impact of human and process factors on the RE-SA interaction. The implications of the emerging theory are anticipated for practice (e.g., aiding execution of RE and SA processes, resource management, etc.) and research (e.g., hypothesis forming and testing, assessing the maturity of the RE-SA field, etc.). Finally, the constructed theory is evaluated based on guidelines from the literature. This work was carried out in conjunction with my doctoral students: Remo Ferarri and Ibtehal Noorwali. Short bio: Nazim H. Madhavji is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada; currently visitor at University of Twente, The Netherlands. He has led a number of research projects in software engineering, involving corporations such as IBM Canada, Sun Microsystems, DMR Group, CAE Electronics, Transport Canada, Siemens Corporation, and CRIM, and was a Principal Investigator in several multi-university projects. He has conducted a number of empirical studies in these companies both qualitative and quantitative. He has co-organized several workshops satellite to conferences such as ICSE, CASCON, RE and REFSQ. He has chaired several positions in conferences and participated in many panels. He is the principal editor of the 27-chapter book “Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice” with Juan F. Ramil and Dewayne Perry, John Wiley, 2006. He has published widely in many international scientific conferences and journals and his papers have been ranked among the best papers of conferences.
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