Summary of 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Testing (RET)

TL;DR

The paper summarizes the 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Testing (RET), highlighting its goals, activities, and key outcomes in fostering collaboration between RE and Testing communities.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the workshop's structure, discussions, and the categorization of papers, advancing understanding of the intersection between Requirements Engineering and Testing.

Findings

Workshop facilitated exchange between RE and Testing communities

Categorization of papers based on RE, Testing, and coordination effects

Enhanced community building in the RET intersection

Abstract

The RET (Requirements Engineering and Testing) workshop series provides a meeting point for researchers and practitioners from the two separate fields of Requirements Engineering (RE) and Testing. The goal is to improve the connection and alignment of these two areas through an exchange of ideas, challenges, practices, experiences and results. The long term aim is to build a community and a body of knowledge within the intersection of RE and Testing, i.e. RET. The 2nd workshop was held in co-location with ICSE 2015 in Florence, Italy. The workshop continued in the same interactive vein as the 1st one and included a keynote, paper presentations with ample time for discussions, and a group exercise. For true impact and relevance this cross-cutting area requires contribution from both RE and Testing, and from both researchers and practitioners. A range of papers were presented from short experience papers to full research papers that cover connections between the two fields. One of the main outputs of the 2nd workshop was a categorization of the presented workshop papers according to an initial definition of the area of RET which identifies the aspects RE, Testing and coordination effect.