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For many years, we have observed industry struggling in defining a highquality requirements engineering (RE) and researchers trying to understandindustrial expectations and problems. Although we are investigating thediscipline with a plethora of empirical studies, they still do not allow forempirical generalisations. To lay an empirical and externally valid foundationabout the state of the practice in RE, we aim at a series of open andreproducible surveys that allow us to steer future research in a problem-drivenmanner. We designed a globally distributed family of surveys in jointcollaborations with different researchers and completed the first run inGermany. The instrument is based on a theory in the form of a set of hypothesesinferred from our experiences and available studies. We test each hypothesis inour theory and identify further candidates to extend the theory by correlationand Grounded Theory analysis. In this article, we report on the design of thefamily of surveys, its underlying theory, and the full results obtained fromGermany with participants from 58 companies. The results reveal, for example, atendency to improve RE via internally defined qualitative methods rather thanrelying on normative approaches like CMMI. We also discovered various REproblems that are statistically significant in practice. For instance, we couldcorroborate communication flaws or moving targets as problems in practice. Ourresults are not yet fully representative but already give first insights intocurrent practices and problems in RE, and they allow us to draw lessons learntfor future replications. Our results obtained from this first run in Germanymake us confident that the survey design and instrument are well-suited to bereplicated and, thereby, to create a generalisable empirical basis of RE inpractice.

Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: A Design for a Global Family of Surveys and First Results from Germany