The Requirements Engineering Specialist Group (RESG) is a
Specialist Group of the
British Computer Society
image:Maurice Vincent Wilkes 1980 (3).jpg, Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957.
The British Computer Society (BCS), branded BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, since 2009, is a professional body and a learned ...
. It runs events on all aspects of
Requirements
In engineering, a requirement is a condition that must be satisfied for the output of a work effort to be acceptable. It is an explicit, objective, clear and often quantitative description of a condition to be satisfied by a material, design, pro ...
.
Mission of the RESG
The RESG's stated purpose is "to provide a forum for interaction between the many disciplines involved" in
Requirements Engineering
Requirements engineering (RE) is the process of defining, documenting, and maintaining requirements in the engineering design process. It is a common role in systems engineering and software engineering.
The first use of the term ''requiremen ...
,
[RESG website]
Retrieved 29 October 2011 which it explains is "a key activity in the development of software systems and is concerned with the identification of the goals of stakeholders and their elaboration into precise statements of desired services and behaviour."
The RESG describes
Requirements engineering
Requirements engineering (RE) is the process of defining, documenting, and maintaining requirements in the engineering design process. It is a common role in systems engineering and software engineering.
The first use of the term ''requiremen ...
as "the elicitation, definition, modelling, analysis, specification and validation of what is needed from a system.".
[About the RESG]
Retrieved 29 October 2011 The RESG's stated mission is to attempt to bridge the gap between industry and research, as it "welcomes members from, and organises events for practitioners, academics and students" in the field.
History of the RESG
The RESG was founded in 1994 by Bashar Nuseibeh of Imperial College (now professor at the Open University), Neil Maiden of City University (also now professor), Paul Gough of Philips Labs, Sara Jones of the
University of Hertfordshire, Steve Easterbrook of the
University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...
, and Orlena Gotel of Imperial College.
[Newsletter RQ01]
Retrieved 29 October 2011 It has run events
[ and published its newsletter][Newsletter]
Retrieved 29 October 2011 ever since.
The RESG's first Chairman was Bashar Nuseibeh. He was succeeded by Pete Sawyer, Ian Alexander and Emmanuel Letier.[
]
Events
The RESG has run "workshops, seminars and tutorials on all aspects of requirements engineering", held "in a variety of locations in the UK, including London, Manchester, York and Edinburgh".[RESG Events]
Retrieved 29 October 2011
Newsletter
The RESG published a newsletter since its foundation. The first 35 issues were titled "Requirenautics Quarterly", with Issue 1 published in October 1994.[
]
Patron
The RESG's patron is Professor Michael A. Jackson, the creator of JSP and JSD, and the inventor of the ''Problem Frames'' approach to requirements.[Michael Jackson. ''Problem Frames: Analysing and Structuring Software Development Problems.'' Addison-Wesley, 2001. ]
References
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External links
RESG Official Website
BCS page on RESG
RESG LinkedIn Discussion Group
Guest Editorial
- RE Journal 1996
1994 establishments in the United Kingdom
Software engineering organizations
BCS Specialist Groups
Computer science organizations
Organizations established in 1994