The Requirements Engineering Specialist Group (RESG) is a Specialist Group of the

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Mission of the RESG

The RESG's stated purpose is "to provide a forum for interaction between the many disciplines involved" in

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,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 ''requirement ...

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

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, and Orlena Gotel of Imperial College.Newsletter RQ01
Retrieved 29 October 2011 It has run events and published its newsletterNewsletter
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". In 1998, the RESG, with the RENOIR project, ran a 2-day ''Conference on European Industrial Requirements Engineering'' (CEIRE'98) in London. Events have included a 'Goals day'; workshops on 'Agile Requirements' and 'Self-Adaptive Systems'; an 'i* Showcase'; special events for post-doctoral researchers; Scenarios days; an event on software services; annual events on 'Careers in RE'; informal 'birds of a feather' pub meetings; book launches; and workshops at the annual international RE conference on 'RE Education and Training' RESG Events
Retrieved 29 October 2011

The RESG published a newsletter since its foundation. The first 35 issues were titled "Requirenautics Quarterly", with Issue 1 published in October 1994. Since Issue 36, the newsletter has been titled "Requirements Quarterly". The founding editor was Steve Easterbrook, then at Sussex University, succeeded by Pete Sawyer of Lancaster University, Ian Alexander of Scenario Plus Ltd, Simon Hutton of Headmark Analysis, and William Heaven.

Patron

The RESG's patron is Professor

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, 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
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