Towards faster application engineering through better informed elicitation - a research preview

Application engineering (AE) is still a time-consuming and expensive task, and the benefits from using a software product line (SPL) approach are often fewer than expected. Among others, one important reason for this low efficiency is the non-systematic mapping of customer requirements, due to the fact that requirements engineers are often not sufficiently informed about SPL characteristics. In this research preview, we present our current and planned work regarding this problem. We discuss how we plan to develop an approach that systematically guides the tailoring of elicitation instruction for application engineering requirements engineering (AERE). In this regard, we also discuss expected improvements and how we plan to evaluate them.