The Influence of Human Aspects on Requirements Engineering-related Activities: Software Practitioners’ Perspective

Requirements Engineering (RE)-related activities require high collaboration between various roles in software engineering (SE), such as requirements engineers, stakeholders, developers, etc. Their demographics, views, understanding of technologies, working styles, communication and capabilities make RE highly human dependent. Identifying how ”human aspects” – motivation, domain knowledge, skills, personality, emotions, culture, etc.– might impact RE-related would help us improve SE general. This study aims to better understand current industry perspectives on the influence aspects activities, specifically focusing motivation by targeting practitioners involved activities. Our findings indicate that consider attitude, skills personality important when A set factors were identified practitioners’ key motivational along with characteristics have RE. We also made individuals less effective obtained some feedback measuring individuals’ performance The from our suggest areas needing more investigation, we summarise a recommendations for further research.