A Methodology for Agile Requirements Engineering based on a Pattern Approach

Agile Software Development (ASD) is used facing the challenge to reduce time to market and to deliver systems, which meets customer expectations. In ASD, Requirements Engineering (RE) is carried out in an iterative manner and therefore established approaches have to be adopted with strong focus on stakeholder and user involvement. The results of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) show that there are different ways to carry out Agile RE approaches, what increases heterogeneity among them. This thesis studies how a commonly accepted framework for Agile RE looks like. To this end, the initial phase for creating a methodology based on a pattern approach will be performed. Therefore, the design science research methodology is applied to carry out the research. The designed artifact is a metamodel that describes the Agile RE process at an abstract level. It represents the main part of the methodology and will be evaluated through an international qualitative study.