Summary of the 3rd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Testing

TL;DR

This paper summarizes the 3rd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Testing, highlighting efforts to connect RE and Testing communities through presentations, discussions, and shared knowledge to foster collaboration and advance the field.

Contribution

It reports on the workshop's activities and its role in building a community and knowledge base at the intersection of Requirements Engineering and Testing.

Findings

Fostered collaboration between RE and Testing communities.

Presented diverse research and position papers.

Encouraged exchange of ideas and practices.

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 3rd workshop was held in co-location with REFSQ 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The workshop continued in the same interactive vein as the predecessors and included a keynote, paper presentations with ample time for discussions, and panels. In order to create an RET knowledge base, this crosscutting area elicits contributions from both RE and Testing, and from both researchers and practitioners. A range of papers were presented from short positions papers to full research papers that cover connections between the two fields.