Special Issue on Requirements Engineering, Practice and Research.

10.3390/app12199556 7 Qasem Ali A., Md Sultan A., Abd Ghani A., Zulzalil H. An Empirical Investigation of Software Customization and Its Impact on the Quality of Software as a Service: Perspectives from Software Professionals. Requirements engineering (RE) is a multidisciplinary, human-centered process integrated with both systems engineering and software engineering, which provides a shared vision and understanding of complex systems throughout their life cycles. Topics of interest considered relevant were the following: RE control natural languages (CNLs); RE visual and modeling languages; RE for specific domains, such as cyber-physical systems, big data, or AI applications; automatic analysis of requirement specifications; RE and natural language processing (NLP) techniques; software tools and platforms for RE; RE quality; RE and software testing; RE and document automation techniques; and RE for privacy, security, and safety aspects. With recent developments in cloud and mobile computing technologies, the growing need for secure, trustworthy, and cost-efficient software and the shortage of highly skilled professional software developers have given rise to a new generation of problems that require improved forms of specification and representation of such systems at multiple abstraction levels, with various concerns and stakeholder perspectives. [Extracted from the article]