Context: There are numerous textual notations and techniques that can be used in
requirements engineering. Currently, practitioners make a choice without having scientific …

Abstract [Context and Motivation] User stories are a popular notation for representing
requirements, especially in agile development. Although they represent a cornerstone for …

In a testing process, the design, selection, creation and execution of test cases is a very time-
consuming and error-prone task when done manually, since suitable and effective test …

Domain models play a crucial role in software development, as they provide means for
communication among stakeholders, for eliciting requirements, and for representing the …

Microservices Architecture (MSA) is the de facto software architecture approach for highly
scalable software systems. Organisations must design their structure and processes around …

The growth of the software industry in the past few decades has led to a high demand of
software engineers, and consequently high enrolment numbers for students majoring in …

This paper presents the results of the controlled experiment that we have conducted in order
to evaluate an approach to automated design of the initial conceptual database model …

Recent research studies report evidence that many systems' requirements are not fully
understood, being difficult to elicit and produce accurate conceptual models more efficiently …

The model-driven engineering (MDE) paradigm promotes the use of conceptual models in
information systems (IS) engineering and research. As engineering products, conceptual …

In agile requirements engineering, user stories are the primary means of capturing project
requirements. However, deriving conceptual models, such as class diagrams, from user …