Requirements Elicitation: A Look at the Future through the Lenses of the Past

Requirements elicitation is the initial step of the requirements engineering process and aims at gathering all the relevant requirements through the direct or indirect interactions between requirements analysts and stakeholders. Even if the requirements elicitation problem is not new and has been approached many times over the years, it is still considered one of the most challenging of the requirements engineering process. In the proposed presentation, we aim at analyzing the journey of the research on requirements elicitation through the 25 years of the Requirements Engineering conference not only by considering the different proposed approaches and their evolution, but also by evaluating the role of requirements elicitation in the conference. Moreover, we will present the lessons learnt during this analysis and will use them as a starting point to present the current trends and outline possible future directions.