This tenth edition marks a special milestone in our community's history. First introduced in 2015, CrowdRE has become an indispensable part of the requirements engineering landscape, shaping how we understand user feedback, the crowd as a stakeholder, and the automation of requirements elicitation and validation. We invite the community to reflect on our journey and help shape the roadmap for CrowdRE towards 2030 and beyond.
CrowdRE has helped requirements engineering (RE) scale up to settings with thousands to millions of users of a (software) product. Online media enable stakeholders to form a large and heterogeneous group that can be denoted as a 'crowd'. The Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering paradigm integrates appropriate methods and tools for dealing with crowds in a single framework.
Since 2015, the International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE) has been facilitating interactive discussions between scientists and representatives of industry through keynotes, interactive sessions, and paper submissions presenting novel and innovative ideas on involving the crowd and collecting, harmonizing, analyzing, and interpreting user feedback.
Retrospectively exploring the decade of CrowdRE and the state of the art we achieved to date.
CrowdRE has sensitized and shaped the field's understanding of user feedback, the crowd as a stakeholder, and the automation of requirements elicitation and validation. We encourage submissions exploring:
Prospectively discussing a roadmap for CrowdRE towards and beyond 2030.
The work on CrowdRE in the past decade provides a solid basis for the next leaps. We encourage submissions that look ahead:
The main theme of RE'26 is Sustainability and workforce transformation in the era of generative AI: How to prepare for a future in collaboration with AI tools and assistants. AI and sustainability are leading themes in the perspective of the future of CrowdRE. Framing the crowd as a workforce allows us to not only explore the impact of GenAI on the crowd, but also to allow the crowd to provide feedback and take control over how GenAI should be adapted to best meet their expectations and achieve their professional goals.
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