Emerging Trends in Requirements Engineering and Testing

Requirements engineering plays a crucial role in understanding stakeholder needs, ensuring quality attributes, and facilitating effective communication in various domains. Software testing helps ensure that software products meet requirements and quality standards. Although these two activities are crucial in software development, practitioners still struggle to effectively apply these techniques to complex software systems in specific contexts. This edition of the “Practitioners’ Digest” covers recent papers on novel approaches and tools to help practitioners perform requirements engineering and testing of software systems from two conferences: the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE 2024) and the 17th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2024). Feedback or suggestions are welcome. Also, if you try or adopt any of the practices included in the column, please send us and the authors of the paper(s) a note about your experiences.