Publications
2023
Franch, Xavier; Palomares, Cristina; Quer, Carme; Chatzipetrou, Panagiota; Gorschek. The state-of-practice in requirements specification: an extended interview study at 12 companies. Requirements Enginnering Journal (2023) (EE)
2022
Guerrón, Ximena; Abrahão, Silvia; Insfran, Emilio; Quer, Carme. Un modelo de calidad para servicios cloud alineado con el estándar ISO/IEC 25010. Book chapter: Calidad y sostenibilidad de sistemas de información en la práctica, (Editorial Ra-MA), 2022
2021
Dolors Costal, Carles Farré, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer. How Tertiary Studies perform Quality Assessment of Secondary Studies in Software Engineering. XXIV CIbSE 2021 (EE)
Dolors Costal, Carles Farré, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria in Software Engineering Tertiary Studies: A Systematic Mapping and Emerging Framework. 15th ESEM 2021: Bari, Italy (EE)
Cristina Palomares, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer, Panagiota Chatzipetrou, Lidia López, Tony Gorschek. The state-of-practice in requirements elicitation: an extended interview study at 12 companies. Requirements Engineering Journal (2021) (EE)
2020
Xavier Franch, Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer. Industrial Practices on Requirements Reuse: An Interview-based Study. REFSQ 2020, Pisa, Italy (EE)
2019
Dolors Costal, Xavier Franch, Lidia López, Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer. On the Use of Requirement Patterns to Analyse Request for Proposal Documents. ER 2019, Salvador, Brazil (EE)
2018
Carme Quer, Xavier Franch, Cristina Palomares, Andreas A. Falkner, Alexander Felfernig, Davide Fucci, Walid Maalej, Jennifer Nerlich, Mikko Raatikainen, Gottfried Schenner, Martin Stettinger, Juha Tiihonen. Reconciling Practice and Rigour in Ontology-Based Heterogeneous Information Systems Construction. PoEM 2018, Vienna, Austria (EE)
Ricard Borrull, Dolors Costal, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer. Research on NLP for RE at UPC: A Report. REFSQ 2018, Utrecht, The Netherlands. (EE)
2017
Carme Quer, Alberto Abelló, Xavier Burgués, M. José Casany, Carme Martín, M. Elena Rodríguez, Oscar Romero and Toni Urpí. E-Assessment of Relational Database Skills by Means of LearnSQL. 9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN 2017), Barcelona, 2017. (EE)
Palomares, C., Quer, C. & Franch, X. Requirements reuse and requirement patterns: a state of the practice survey. Empirical Software Engineering, 22(6), ISSN: 1382-3256 2719-2762. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-016-9485-x (EE)
2016
Alberto Abelló, Xavier Burgués, M. José Casany, Carme Martín, Carme Quer, M. Elena Rodríguez, Oscar Romero, Toni Urpí: A Software Tool for E-Assessment of Relational Database Skills. International Journal of Engineering Education. Vol 32, No. 3(A), 2016. (EE)
2015
Juan P. Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer: Improving Quality Models Construction Through Knowledge Reuse. WER 2015 (EE)
2014
Irfan Awan, Muhammad Younas, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer (Eds.). Mobile Web Information Systems - 11th International Conference, MobiWIS 2014, Barcelona, Spain, August 27-29, 2014. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8640, Springer 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-10358-7 (EE)
Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer, Xavier Franch. Requirements Reuse with the PABRE Framework. Requirements Engineering Magazine. The Magazine for RE Professionals from IREB. Issue 2014-01: Learning to fly. (EE)
Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer, Xavier Franch: Requirements Reuse and Patterns: A Survey. REFSQ 2014 (EE)
2013
Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer, Xavier Franch. PABRE-Proj: Applying Patterns in Requirements Elicitation. Demo presented at 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2013) pp. 332-333, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. (EE)
Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer, Xavier Franch, Samuel Renault, Cindy Guerlain: A Catalogue of Functional Software Requirement Patterns for the Domain of Content Management Systems. SAC 2013 (EE)
Cristina Palomares, Xavier Franch, and Carme Quer. Using a Pattern Catalogue in Requirements Engineering Activities, Survey conducted during the 19th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2013), Essen, Germany. (EE)
Xavier Franch, Carme Quer, Samuel Renault, Cindy Guerlain, Cristina Palomares: Constructing and Using Software Requirements Patterns. Chapter 5 in book Managing Requirements Knowledge, Springer (EE)
Carme Martín, Toni Urpí, M. José Casany, Xavier Burgués, Carme Quer, M. Elena Rodríguez and Alberto Abelló. Improving Learning in a Database Course using Collaborative Learning Technique, vol. 29, num. 4, 2013 (EE)
2012
Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer, Xavier Franch, Cindy Guerlain, Samuel Renault: A catalogue of non-technical Requirement Patterns. RePa 2012: 1-6
Carme Martín, Toni Urpí, Alberto Abelló, Xavier Burgués, M.José Casany, Carme Quer, Elena Rodríguez. Avaluació de la Incorporació d'Activitats d'Aprenentatge Actiu i Cooperatiu a les Assignatures de Bases de Dades de la Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona. Presented in the 7th International Congress on University Teaching and Innovation (CIDUI 2012), Barcelona, July 2012. ISBN: 978-84-695-4073-2. (EE)
2011
Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer, Xavier Franch: PABRE-Man: Management of a requirement patterns catalogue. 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2011) pp. 341-342, Trento, Italy.
Xavier Franch, Cindy Guerlain, Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer, Samuel Renault. Interested in Improving Your Requirements Engineering Process? Try Requirement Patterns! REFSQ 2011. (EE)
Cares, C.; Franch, X.; Mayol, E.; Quer, C. A Reference Model for i*. In the book Social Modelling for Requirements Engineering, pp.573-606. The MIT Press. 2011. (EE)
Franch,X.; Mayol, E.; Quer, C. On the Use of i* for COTA Components Selection Principles and Consequences. In the book Social Modelling for Requirements Engineering, pp.517-546. The MIT Press. 2011. (EE)
Alberto Abelló, Xavier Burgués, M.José Casany, Carme Martín, Carme Quer, Elena Rodríguez, Toni Urpí. Adaptació de LEARN-SQL al nou Espai Europeu d’Educació Superior (EEES). Presented in the Jornada d'Innovació Docent JID UPC 2011. (EE)
2010
Xavier Franch, Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer, Samuel Renault, François De Lazzer: A Metamodel for Software Requirement Patterns. REFSQ 2010: 85-90
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer. Calidad de componentes Software. En el libro Calidad del producto y proceso software. Editorial Ra-Ma. 2010. (EE)
Xavier Burgués, Carme Quer, Carme Martín, Alberto Abelló, M. José Casany, M. Elena Rodríguez, Toni Urpí. Adapting LEARN-SQL to Database computer supported cooperative learning. Presented in the workshop Methods and Cases in Computing Education (MCCE 2010), Cadiz, July 2010. (EE)
C. Martín, A. Abelló, X. Burgués, M.J. Casany, C. Quer, E. Rodríguez, T. Urpi. Adaptació d'assignatures de bases de dades a l'eees. Presented in the VI International Congress of University Teaching and Innovation (CIDUI 2010), Barcelona, July 2010.
2009
Samuel Renault, Oscar Mendez-Bonilla, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer: A pattern-based method for building requirements documents in call-for-tender processes. IJCSA 6(5): 175-202 (2009)
Renault, S.; Mendez-Bonilla, O.; Franch, X.; Quer, C. PABRE: Pattern-based Requirements Elicitation. Third International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2009. RCIS 2009. (RCIS 2009) (EE)
Alberto Abelló, Xavier Burgués, M. José Casany, Carme Martín, Carme Quer, M. Elena Rodríguez, Toni Urpí. LEARN-SQL: Herramienta de gestión de ejercicios de SQL con autocorrección. Demo (recurso) presented in the XV Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática (JENUI 2009), Barcelona, July 2009. ISBN: 978-84-692-2758-9. (EE)
2008
Alberto Abelló, Elena Rodríguez, Toni Urpí, Xavier Burgués Illa, M. José Casany, Carme Martín, Carme Quer: LEARN-SQL: Automatic Assessment of SQL Based on IMS QTI Specification. ICALT 2008: 592-593 (EE)
Oscar Mendez-Bonilla, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer: Requirements Patterns for COTS Systems. ICCBSS 2008: 232-234 (EE)
Xavier Franch, Carme Quer, Josep A. Cantón, Roser Salietti: Experience Report on the Construction of Quality Models for Some Content Management Software Domains. ICCBSS 2008: 63-71 (EE)
Xavier Burgués, Carme Quer, Alberto Abelló, M. José Casany, Carme Martín, M. Elena Rodríguez, Toni Urpí. Uso de LEARN-SQL en el aprendizaje cooperativo de Bases de Datos. In XIV Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática (JENUI 2008). Granada (Spain), July 2008. Pages 359-366. FER fotocomposición, 2008. ISBN 978-84-612-4475-1. (EE)
M. José Casany, Carme Martín, Alberto Abelló, Xavier Burgués, Carme Quer, M. Elena Rodríguez, Toni Urpí. LEARN-SQL: A blended learning tool for the database area. In V Congreso Internacional de Docencia Universitaria e Innovación (CIDUI 2008). Lleida (Spain), July 2008. ISBN 978-84-8458-279-3. (EE)
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer: Requirements engineering for COTS-based software systems. SAC 2008: 638-644 (EE)
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer: Supporting CMMI Level 2 SAM PA with Non-technical Features Catalogues. Software Process: Improvement and Practice 13(2): 171-182 (2008) (EE)
2007
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer. “Determining Criteria for Selecting Software Components: Lessons Learned”. IEEE Software, May/June 2007 (Vol. 24, No. 3), 2007. https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2007.70 (EE)
Xavier Franch, Gemma Grau, Enric Mayol, Carme Quer, Claudia P. Ayala, Carlos Cares, Fredy Navarrete, Mariela Haya, Pere Botella. “Systematic Construction of I* Strategic Dependency Models for Socio-technical Systems”. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 17(1), 2007. (EE) https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194007003148
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer. “Towards a Unified Catalogue of Non-technical Quality Attributes to Support COTS-Based Systems Lifecycle Activities”. (best paper) International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS 2007 (EE)
2006
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer. “Managing Non-Technical Requirements in COTS Components Selection (Short Paper)”. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Requirements Engineering International Conference RE 2006. Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA). IEEE Computer Society. 2006
C. Quer, X. Franch, X. Lopez-Pelegrín. "DesCOTS-SL: A Tool for the Selection of COTS Components". Demonstration presented during the International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06), Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA), September 2006.<[DesCOTS Web Page]
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch,Carme Quer. “Un Catálogo de Factores de Calidad para la Definición de Requisitos No Técnicos en la Selección de Componentes COTS”. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER'06). July 13-14, 2006. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. [WER 2006]
Carvallo, J.P., Franch, X., Quer, C. "Managing Non-Technical Requirements in COTS Components Selection". In Research Report LSI-06-11-R. March 2006. [full paper]
2005
C. Quer, X. Franch, X. Lopez-Pelegrín. "DesCOTS-EV: A Tool for the Evaluation of COTS Components". Demonstration presented during the International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'05), Paris (France), September 2005.[DesCOTS Web Page]
Gemma Grau, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer. "Un Marco para la Definición de Métricas sobre Modelos de Dependencias de Actores". To appear in Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER'05). June 13-14, 2005. Porto, Portugal [WER 2005]
Gemma Grau, Xavier Franch, Enric Mayol, Claudia Ayala, Carlos Cares, Mariela Haya, Fredy Navarrete, Pere Botella, Carme Quer. "RiSD: A Methodology for Building i* Strategic Dependency Models". To appear in Proceedings of The Seventeenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'05). 14-16 July, 2005. Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. [SEKE 2005]
Claudia P. Ayala, Carlos Cares, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Gemma Grau, Mariela Haya, Guadalupe Salazar, Xavier Franch, Enric Mayol & Carme Quer. "A Comparative Analysis of i*-Based Goal-Oriented Modeling Languages". To appear in Proceedings of The Seventeenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'05). 14-16 July, 2005. Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. [AOSDM 2005]
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Quer, C. "A Quality Model for Requirements Management Tools". Book chapter of the book "Requirements Engineering for Sociotechnical Systems", edited by José Luis Maté and Andrés Silva and published by Idea Group, Inc 2005.
PhD Thesis - Author: Carvallo,J.P. Advisors: Franch,X.; Quer,C. Systematic construction of quality models for cots-based systems, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech, 2005
2004
Claudia P. Ayala, Carlos Cares, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Gemma Grau, Mariela Haya, Guadalupe Salazar, Xavier Franch, Enric Mayol, Carme Quer. "Análisis Comparativo de Lenguajes de Modelado Orientados a Objetivos basados en i*". In Proceedings of the Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Ingeniería del Software e Ingeniería del Conocimiento (JIISIC'04). Madrid, Spain. 2004. [abstract] [full paper] [JISSIC 2004]
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Gemma Grau & Carme Quer. "COSTUME: A Method for Building Quality Models for Composite COTS-based Software Systems". In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2004). Braunschweig, Germany. IEEE Computer Society Press. 2004. [abstract]
Gemma Grau, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch & Carme Quer. "DesCOTS: A Software System for Selecting COTS Components". In Proceedings of the 30th EUROMICRO Conference. Rennes, France. Pages 118-126. IEEE Computer Society. 2004. [abstract]
Xavier Franch, Gemma Grau & Carme Quer. "A Framework for the Definition of Metrics for Actor-Dependency Models". In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Requirements Engineering International Conference RE 2004.Kyoto, Japan. IEEE Computer Society. 2004. [abstract] [technical report LSI-04-10-R]
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Gemma Grau & Carme Quer. "QM: A Tool for Building Software Quality Models". In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Requirements Engineering International Conference RE 2004.Kyoto, Japan. IEEE Computer Society. 2004. [abstract] [technical report LSI-04-11-R]
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Grau, G; Quer, C. "On the use of quality models for COTS evaluation". Proceedings of the International Workshop on Models and Processes for the Evaluation of COTS Components (MPEC'04), Edinburgh, May 2004. Held in conjunction with the 26th.International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE04). [proceedings in pdf]
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Grau, G; Quer, C. "Reaching an Agreement on COTS Quality through the Use of Quality Models". Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Software Quality (SQ’04), Edinburgh, May 2004. Held in conjunction with the 26th.International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE04). [proceedings in pdf]
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Grau, G; Quer, C. "COSTUME: A Method for Building Quality Models for Composite COTS-based Software Systems". Technical ReportLSI-04-12-R, Dept. LSI (UPC), Feb 2004. [abstract and pdf]
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Grau, G; Quer, C. "DesCOTS: A Software System for Selecting COTS Components". Technical Report LSI-04-14-R, Dept. LSI (UPC), Mar 2004. [abstract and pdf]
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Grau, G; Quer, C. "QM: A Tool for Building Software Quality Models". Technical Report LSI-04-11-R, Dept. LSI (UPC), Feb 2004. [abstract and pdf], [QM web page]
P. Botella, X. Burgués, J.P. Carvallo, X. Franch, G. Grau, J. Marco, C. Quer. "ISO/IEC 9126 in practice: what do we need to know?". First Software Measurement European Forum (SMEF’04), Roma, january 2004. [abstract]
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Quer, C.; Torchiano, M. "Building Sound COTS Products Taxonomies". In the proceedings of the International Workshop on COTS Terminology and Categories: Can We Reach a Consensus? (IWCTC 2004), Redondo Beach (USA), Feb 2004. Held in conjunction with the 3rd. International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS04. [proceddings in pdf]
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Quer, C.; Torchiano, M. "Characterization of a Taxonomy for Business Applications and the Relationships between them". Third International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS 2004, Redondo Beach(USA). [abstract] [Best paper of the conference]
2003
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Quer, C.; Burgués, X.; Grau, G. "COSTUME:Un método para la combinación de modelos de calidad". Workshop on Requirements Engineering, WER 2003, Piracicaba (Brasil). [abstract]
Botella, P.; Burgués, X.; Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Pastor, J.A.; Quer, C. "Towards a Quality Model for ERP System Selection". Chapter of the book Component-Based Software Quality: Methods and Techniques. LNCS. Vol 2693. June 2003. [link]
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Quer, C. "Building and Using Quality Models for Complex Software Domains". Research Report Dept LSI Number: LSI-03-28-R [link]
Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Quer, C. "Defining a Quality Model for Mail Servers". Second International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS 2003, Ottawa, Canada
2002
Botella, P.; Burgués, X.; Carvallo, J.P.; Franch, X.; Quer, C. "Using Quality Models for Assessing COTS Selection". V Workshop on Requirements Engineering, WER 2002, València
Burgués, X.; Estay, C.; Franch, X.; Pastor, J.A.; Quer, C. "Combined Selection of COTS Components". First International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS 2002,Orlando FL (USA) [abstract] [full paper in pdf
2001
Burgués, X.; Estay, C.; Franch, X.; Pastor, J.A.; Quer, C. "Selección Conjunta de Componentes COTS". VI Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD´2001), Almagro (Ciudad Real), 21-23 noviembre 2001
1999
Quer,C. "Determinació d'esquemes d'interacció en Models Conceptuals Orientats a Objectes amb interacció implícita". TESIS DOCTORAL. Dirigida pel Dr. Antoni Olivé. Llegida al Gener de 1999
1997
Costal,D.; Sancho,M.R.; Olivé,A.; Barceló,M.; Costa,P.; Quer,C.; Roselló,A. "The Cause-Effect Rules of ROSES". Proc. First East-European Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS'97), St. Petersburg, Russia, Set.1997.
1996
Sancho,M.R.; Costal,D.; Costa,P.; Olivé,A.; Quer,C.; Roselló,A.; Barceló,M. "Modelización conceptual usando eventos estructurales en ROSES" Jornadas de trabajo de Ingeniería del Software (JIS’96). Sevilla, España, Nov. 1996, pp 11-20.
Costal,D.; Sancho,M.R.; Roselló,A.; Costa,P.; Olivé,A.; Quer,C.;Barceló,M. "Obtención automática de los eventos estructurales en el sistema ROSES". Jornadas de trabajo de Ingeniería del Software (JIS’96). Sevilla, España, Nov. 1996, pp 21-30.
Barceló,M.; Costa,P.; Costal,D.; Olivé,A.; Quer,C.; Roselló,A.; Sancho,M.R. "El llenguatge ROSES. Part I.". Report tècnic LSI-96-55-R, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, Catalunya, Set. 1996, 94 pp.
Costa,P.; Barceló,M.; Costal,D.; Olivé,A.; Quer,C.; Roselló,A.; Sancho,M.R. "Las clases de objetos en ROSES". Primeras Jornadas de investigación y docencia en Bases de Datos. La Corunya, España, Juny 1996, pp 98-108.
Costa,M.; Quer,C. "Localizacion de datos para aplicaciones distribuidas". Novatica, Juliol/Agost 96, pp 38-47.
1994
Quer,C "An Execution Model for Change Computation in Deductive Databases". Fifth International Workshop on the Deductive Approach to Information Sytems and Databases. Aiguablava, Costa Brava (Catalonia), September 1994, pp 159-188.
Quer,C.; Olivé,A. "Determining Object Interaction in Object-Oriented Deductive Conceptual Models". Information Systems, Pergamon, vol 19, n.3, April 1994, pp 211-227.
Barcelo,M.; Costa,M.; Quer,C. "Analisi d'aplicacion informatiques". Edicions UPC, Col.leccio POLITEXT, num 13.
1993
Quer,C.; Olivé,A. "Object Interaction in Object-Oriented Deductive Conceptual Models". CAiSE'93. Paris, France, June 1993, pp 374-396.
1992
Quer,C. "Combining the Object-Oriented approach and the Deductive approach for Conceptual Modelling". Third International Workshop on the Deductive Approach to Information S\ ytems and Databases. Roses, Costa Brava (Catalonia), September 1992, pp 127-156.
1991
Quer,C.; Sistac,J. "ODISSEA: a language for deductive information systems". Second International Workshop on the Deductive Approach on Information Systems and Databases. Aiguablava, Costa Brava (Catalonia), September 1991, pp 22-49.
1990
Costa,M.; Quer,C. "Arquitectura de los Sistemas Informaticos". Novatica, Abril 1990, pp 49-60.