We are currently setting up a new representation of the REFrame workshop series. This link will be the permanent URL of this workshop. It works already and redirects to this current page.

REFrame 2/2023, “Reframing Elicitation”, will take place at RE 2023, the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 2023, 4–8 September 2023, in Hannover, Germany.

Call for Papers

The REFrame workshop is a forum for discussing questions and exchanging experiences concerning frameworks for requirements engineering (RE, RE frameworks). Special focus of REFrame 2/2023 is requirements elicitation.

The workshop brings together a diverse spectrum of people from scientific research and industrial practice. The workshop format is highly interactive, combining inspiring presentations, in-depth breakout sessions, and lively discussions.

Workshop results will include a collection of important requirements elicitation frameworks (methods, techniques, best practices etc.), which shall later be evolved into a web-based compendium.

Submission

Contributions must be submitted via EasyChair: (URL will be provided soon)

Submission deadline is: Friday, 09 June 2023, 23:59 AoE (UTC -12h)

Submission format of the submission types paper and extended abstract must strictly adhere to the RE 2023 formatting instructions.

For additional details on submission categories and dates please see below.

Submission Types

Submissions shall fit into one of the following categories:

Problem / Position / Vision Paper (up to 4 pages, excluding references). These papers could, for instance, share overviews of elicitation frameworks or open questions / challenges / expectations in the RE community that appear promising in terms of being addressed by elicitation frameworks.

Technical Solution / Experience Report / Scientific Paper (up to 6 pages, excluding references). These papers could share experiences or lessons learned from the development and/or application of elicitation.

Extended Abstract (up to 2 pages, excluding references). Such abstracts could share practical experiences with elicitation frameworks or visions for them. Authors are invited to share their best practice experience with requirements elicitation frameworks.

Presentation only (2-3 slides expressing the main message of the contribution). Primarily participants from industry are invited to share their experiences as presentations. Presentations will not be included into the proceedings publication.

Poster (poster page) Can provide an overview of concepts and experiences (e.g., from industry) or research results in early stages or work in progress. Posters will not be included into the proceedings publication.

Main Objective

Main objective of the workshop is to investigate and discuss requirements elicitation frameworks (e.g., techniques, methods, and practices). So, the key concepts addressed in the workshop are software requirements frameworks and requirements elicitation:

The workshop understands a framework as a structure for a topic area that collects elements of the topic area and relates them to each other. A framework is semi-complete and must be supplemented and/or adapted context-specifically for a concrete application. 

Elicitation is the process of seeking, capturing, and consolidating requirements from available sources, potentially including the re-construction or creation of requirements.

Over time, as software and software engineering (SE) processes have evolved, the challenges of elicitation and the techniques and methods used have evolved, too. The workshop aims at understanding better what elicitation means today and how it needs to improve in the future.

In this sense the workshop will also consider the main theme of RE 2023: “Redefining RE: Challenging RE Perceptions, Boundaries, and Topics”. At best, it will provide a vivid illustration of what this theme can mean specifically to the field of requirements elicitation.