Elizabeth Bjarnason

TL;DR: A multi-unit case study is performed to gain insight into issues around aligning RE and VV by interviewing 30 practitioners from 6 software developing companies, involving 10 researchers in a flexible research process for case studies and provides a strategic roadmap for practitioners improvement work to address alignment challenges.

TL;DR: Investigating this agile practice of using test cases as requirements to understand how test cases can support the main requirements activities, and how this practice varies provides empirical insight into how agile development projects manage and communicate requirements.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates with a proof-of-concept tool that the proposed automated search and selection approach generates valid search strings and that the performance for subsets of primary studies can reduce the manual work by half.

TL;DR: Findings from an empirical interview study about understanding the causes and effects of overscoping in a large-scale industrial set up are reported on to provide an increased understanding of the scoping activity as a continuous activity and outline risks and issues that can lead to a situation of over scoping.