Data Analysis for the 2014 Edition of the NaPiRE Survey
This work is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3. Parts of it may be subject to other license (the data, e.g., is under CC-BY 4.0). Please refer to the respective directories for more details.
The NaPiRE initiative (Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering) is a community endeavour run by a multitude of researchers world-wide. When referring to the NaPiRE initiative, please always refer to the official initiative's website under http://napire.org. When referring to the data set, please respect the authors' attribution as described in the respective folders; These authors can be referred to as via "Daniel Mendez, Stefan Wagner, Marcos Kalinowski, Michael Felderer et al."
When citing the NaPiRE initiative, please therefore use:
D. Mendez, S. Wagner, M. Kalinowski, M. Felderer et al.. NaPiRE: Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering, http://napire.org.
Specific data sets can be cited by adding the dates from the respective NaPiRE runs to the citation (e.g. 2018 for the one primarily used in context of this repository).
Exemplary publications that describe the initiative and which can be also used to refer to the data set are:
- D. Mendez Fernandez, S. Wagner. Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: A Design for a Global Family of Surveys and First Results from Germany. In: Information and Software Technology, Elsevier, 2014
- D. Mendez Fernandez, S. Wagner, M. Kalinowski, M. Felderer, P. Mafra, A. Vetrò, T. Conte, M.-T. Christiansson, D. Greer, C. Lassenius, T. Männistö, M. Nayebi, M. Oivo, B. Penzenstadler, D. Pfahl, R. Prikladnicki, G. Ruhe, A. Schekelmann, S. Sen, R. Spinola, J.L. de la Vara, A. Tuzcu, R. Wieringa. Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: Contemporary Problems, Causes, and Effects in Practice. In: Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Springer, 2016
- S. Wagner, D. Mendez Fernandez, M. Kalinowski, M. Felderer, P. Mafra, A. Vetrò, T. Conte, M.-T. Christiansson, D. Greer, C. Lassenius, T. Männistö, M. Nayebi, M. Oivo, B. Penzenstadler, D. Pfahl, R. Prikladnicki, G. Ruhe, A. Schekelmann, S. Sen, R. Spinola, J.L. de la Vara, A. Tuzcu, R. Wieringa, and D. Winkler. Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys. In: Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2019
The authors' preprint versions of the manuscripts can be found on the initiative's website.