A State-of-the-Practice Survey on Requirements Engineering in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Uolevi Nikula, Jorma Sajaniemi, Heikki A. Kalviainen · 2000
Technology transfer to smalland medium-sized enterprises has failed to achieve its full potential in the requirements engineering (RE) field. Most companies do not know how to start their RE improvement efforts even if they are aware of the problems in this field. The state-of-the-practice survey presented in this paper gives a realistic view of how marginal technology transfer from the research community to the industry has been. It also reveals that the key development needs in industry are (1) development of own RE process adaptations, (2) RE process improvement, and (3) automation of RE practices. Directing efforts to these areas would substantially improve the chances of successful technology transfer and process improvement efforts in industry.