Requirements engineering patterns: An approach to capturing and exchanging requirements engineering experience

69 pp. (2004).
The special interest group on requirements engineering of the German Informatics Society has established a working group on “Requirements Engineering Patterns”. The group has demonstrated the applicability of the concept of patterns for collecting and exchanging re- quirements engineering (RE) experience, especially for project teams which are in the process of adopting RE. This report presents an overview of the work and a summary of the results of the working group. It describes a method for comparing case studies and extracting patterns of recurring successful requirements engineering activities, and it contains a catalogue of fourteen RE patterns which have been identified by that method. A Web-based RE pattern repository is being developed to make patterns available for project teams on the job.