Thematic Track: Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering 2016

Quality is often considered something that must be in conformance with system requirements. However, such requirements keep changing to be aligned with the business needs, thus making quality a moving target! Requirements engineering helps to elicit the stakeholders requirements (such in a form of general goals, user stories, use cases, constraints etc.) with respect to the system of interested, to prioritize such requirements and, ultimately, to reach a common ground with other stakeholders with conflicting requirements. Furthermore, it helps stakeholders from different backgrounds to communicate among them, and with even with the project team, with systems designers, developers, testers, etc. The former are not necessarily interested in the implementation technical details, while the latter are specialized in designing, building and testing such systems. Caught in-between, requirements engineers must also keep up with newer development approaches. The "Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering" Thematic Track 2016 has at its accepted papers a multitude of relevant topics such as: requirements elicitation and specification, requirements traceability, requirements prioritization, ontologies for embed systems, and requirements specification tools. This program includes five full papers and two work-in-progress papers.