Publications

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Tool-Based Requirements Management

A. Birk, “Requirements tool practices that drive business agility,” in Software Business, S. Hyrynsalmi, J. Münch, K. Smolander, and J. Melegati, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 500. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, pp. 51–57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53227-6_4.

A. Gürtler, S. Mattern, A. Birk, and G. Heller, “Pferdewechsel bei vollem Galopp: Toolwechsel und Weiterentwicklung des RE in einer großen, komplexen Plattformentwicklung,” presented at the REConf 2014, Munich, Mar. 11, 2014.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Tool-gestütztes Requirements-Management: Richtig effizient mit System,” presented at the Swiss Requirements Day 2012, Zurich, Jun. 20, 2012.

Requirements Management

A. Wohlgemuth, A. Herrmann, and A. Birk, Eds., “Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Frameworks: REFraming Elicitation (REFrame 2/2023), Workshop Proceedings,” in 2023 IEEE 31st International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2023, pp. 343–364. [Online]. Available: https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/REW57809.2023.00064

A. Birk, “Requirements-Management für IT- und Software-Organisationen,” in Michael Lang, Stefan Scherber, Eds., Perfekte Softwareentwicklung: Prozesse, Technologien und Methoden für erfolgreiche Softwareprojekte, Düsseldorf: Symposion Publishing, 2013, pp. 111–138.

A. Birk, “Requirements Management erfolgreich im Unternehmen verankern,” presented at the Arbeitskreis “Requirements” der GI-Regionalgruppe München, Munich, Apr. 19, 2010.

A. Birk, “Requirements Engineering und Software-Test,” SQ Magazin, no. 17, Dec. 2010.

K. El Emam and A. Birk, “Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 measure of software requirements analysis process capability,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 26, pp. 541–566, Jun. 2000.

Agile Development & Improvement

P. Schinzel and A. Birk, “Success Factors of Agile Software Development: Experiences from A Multi-Year International Project for Restructuring and Extension of a Product Platform,” presented at the 7. Scrum-Day 2013, Berlin, Jun. 12, 2013.

A. Birk, T. Dingsøyr, and T. Stålhane, “Postmortem: Never leave a project without it,” IEEE Software, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 43–45, May 2002.

Software Engineering & Improvement

A. Birk and D. Pfahl, “A systems perspective on software process improvement,” in Oivo, Markku, Komi-Sirviö, Seija (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2002), 9-11 December 2002, Rovaniemi, Finland, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2559. Berlin: Springer, 2002, pp. 4–18. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36209-6_4

A. Birk and D. Rombach, “A practical approach to continuous improvement in software engineering,” in D.B.Meyerhoff M.J.Wieczorek, editor, Software Quality – State of The Art in Management, Testing, and Tools, Software Quality@Xpert, Springer, Berlin, 2001, pp. 34–45.

A. Birk and M. Oivo, “Improving software development of embedded systems,” in Proceedings of the Embedded Systems Conference Europe 2000, Maastricht, The Netherlands: CMP Electronics, Nov. 2000.<7p>K. El Emam and A. Birk, “Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 measures of software development process capability,” The Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 119–149, Apr. 2000.

Software Product Lines & Variant Management

D. Beuche et al., “Using Requirements Management Tools in Software Product Line Engineering: The State of the Practice,” in Software Product Line Conference, International, Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, Sep. 2007, pp. 84–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/SPLINE.2007.15.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Challenges for requirements engineering and management in software product line development,” in Pete Sawyer, Barbara Paech, Patrick Heymans ,Eds., Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Proceedings of the 13th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2007, Trondheim, Norway, June 11-12, 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4542. Berlin: Springer, Jun. 2007, pp. 300–305. [Online]. Available: http://www.refsq.org/2007/

T. von der Maßen, A. Birk, G. Heller, I. John, and K. Schmid, “Herausforderungen bei industriellen Produktlinien-Entwicklungen,” OBJEKTspektrum, no. 5, pp. 69–75, Sep. 2004.

A. Birk, G. Heller, I. John, T. von der Maßen, K. Müller, and K. Schmid, “Product line engineering: The state of the practice,” IEEE Software, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 52–60, Nov. 2003.

Test Management & Software Quality

A. Birk, H.-J. Eisenbach, H. Hanisch, B. Moritz, A. Schlatter, and M. Schlich, “Wege durch den Testmanagement-Dschungel,” Softwaretechnik-Trends, vol. 30, no. 3, Aug. 2010.

T. Lingenfelder and A. Birk, “A testing infrastructure for highly available, internet-based banking applications at ING-DiBa,” presented at the HP SOFTWARE UNIVERSE, Vienna, Dec. 08, 2008.

A. Birk, “Testmanagement unter dem Einfluss der Software-Industrialisierung,” in Georg Herzwurm, Martin Mikusz, Eds., Industrialisierung des Software-Managements: Fachtagung des GI-Fachausschusses “Mangement der Anwendungsentwicklung und -wartung” im Fachbereich Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI-MAW), 12.-14. November 2008, Stuttgart, Germany, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), in Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), vol. 139. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), Nov. 2008, pp. 57–72.

Test Management & Software Quality

A. Birk, H.-J. Eisenbach, H. Hanisch, B. Moritz, A. Schlatter, and M. Schlich, “Wege durch den Testmanagement-Dschungel,” Softwaretechnik-Trends, vol. 30, no. 3, Aug. 2010.

T. Lingenfelder and A. Birk, “A testing infrastructure for highly available, internet-based banking applications at ING-DiBa,” presented at the HP SOFTWARE UNIVERSE, Vienna, Dec. 08, 2008.