WER Overview: Retrospective, Trends and Relevance

Abstract

This work refers to the review of 258 papers published in the WER throughout 15 editions. This review ́s goal was to identify the most active research groups within this workshop, the most debated topics and the trends in the Requirements Engineering area. Furthermore, the aim of this review was to analyze the relevance of WER. It was made identifying where WER papers have been cited. The results showed that Brazil, Argentina and Spain hold the most active groups. The requirements modeling is one of the most discussed topics in this event. Moreover, the results pointed out the international conference as one type of publication that more referenced WER papers, and the Requirements Engineering as one of the journals that more referenced WER papers.