Software factories in Sinaloa: Requirements engineering application priority issues

Nowadays is well known the relevance of requirements engineering in software development processes. Regrettably, the correct application of the activities is living aside for some developer's teams. This study presents the priority given by software factories in Sinaloa, México. A set of software factories (25 in total) in Sinaloa were interviewed in order to obtain the relevance given for requirements engineering regarding the tools and techniques they use; an analysis is presented. Software factories names are omitted due to privacy policies.