Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering (NaPiRE) constitutes a globally distributed family of surveys on Requirements Engineering (RE) practices and problems, initiated by Daniel Méndez and Stefan Wagner in 2012. It is nowadays conducted by an internationally distributed alliance of software engineering researchers with the goal to help the research community getting a better understanding of general industrial trends in Requirements Engineering (RE) and problems faced therein. NaPiRE is an academic (non-profit and open) endeavour which aims at establishing the first holistic theory on industrial practices and problems in RE.
This repository contains all the material from the 2018 Edition of the NaPiRE Survey:
- Organisation: Contains material from the data collection (e.g. invitation text messages or the project export from the survey tool).
- data: Contains all the raw data as exported from the survey tool. The file napire_truth.csv contains the cleaned data set.
- documentation: Contains the codebook and documentation material supporting the data analysis process (e.g. coding instructions).
- notebooks: Contains all Jupyter notebooks as used in the data analysis.
- notebooks_html: HTML exports of selected notebooks.
Note: The repository is private as long as the data analysis as well as the further collaborations based on the NaPiRE data are ongoing and will be made public with an open data export to Zenodo.
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.