Towards Data-Driven Requirements Engineering
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Speaker (s):
Walid Maalej
Professor of Informatics,
University of Hamburg
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Date:
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September 20, 2019, Friday
11:00am - 12:00pm
SIS Seminar Room 2.1, Level 2
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
80 Stamford Road
Singapore 178902
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ABSTRACT
The easy selection and deployment of software through app stores makes users more demanding, while the wide adoption of social media makes them accessible and more proactive. Demanding users can be critical; requiring a bigger say on the software and its features. Proactive users can be constructive; helping to define and prioritize the software requirements.
Future software and requirements engineering should be able to adopt the requirements of user masses when deciding on what to develop and when to release. I will present recent advances in this area and discuss how practitioners could systematically use explicit and implicit user data submitted by the masses – towards a more data-driven requirements engineering from the masses and for the masses.
About the Speaker
Walid Maalej is a full professor of informatics at the University of Hamburg and head of the Applied Software Technology group. His current research interests include data-driven software engineering, participation in requirements and design, innovative mobile services, and context-aware adaptive systems. Walid supervised more than 50 theses and published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and three books on these topics. Walid has been awarded in 2014 by the German Association of University Professors (DHV) and academics as “The Early Stage Researcher of the Year”. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Systems and Software and a Junior Fellow of the German Computer Science Society (GI). He is also the recipient of the Microsoft Award for Software Engineering Innovation (SEIF), the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, Google Research Award. Walid is program chair of RE’18 IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference. He has successfully organized more than 15 international scientific events and served in the PC of numerous conferences including ICSE, RE, OSS, and ESEC/FSE. Walid Maalej served as consultant for numerous companies including Siemens, Tata Consultancy Services, and Rohde und Schwarz. Previously, he was leading a research group on context and human aspects in software at the TU Munich, where he received his M.Sc. in 2006 and his Ph.D. in 2010 – both with distinction. He is also Alumni of the CDTM, a member of the Bavarian Elite Network.
