The 10th International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE'26)



August 17, 2026
In conjunction with RE 2026

Program

CrowdRE'26 is co-located with the RE 2026 conference. The workshop intends to promote lively discussions among participants from both industry and academia.

Workshop Format

CrowdRE'26 is intended as a one-day workshop held before the RE'26 main conference. This celebratory tenth edition will feature:

  • Keynote session — Invited keynote speakers will present on topics relevant to the history and future of CrowdRE
  • 10-year celebratory session — A dedicated session for reflecting on this milestone through talks and a history of the workshop series
  • Paper sessions — Two paper sessions with up to three paper presentations each. Paper presentations may last up to 20 minutes and are followed by a discussant who puts the paper into scientific perspective, lists contributions, and raises issues and questions for discussion
  • Interactive session — Specifically planned to discuss and elaborate the roadmap for CrowdRE that we intend to publish as a whitepaper or peer-reviewed publication

Detailed Program

This is a tentative program and is subject to change.

Time Session
09:00–09:30 P1: Probing the Crowd Online: A semi-automated Analysis of Explanation Needs in Subreddit Threads
Jakob Droste, Cedric Wellhausen, Hannah Deters, Ben Luca Schüring, Alexander Specht and Kurt Schneider
Discussant: TBD
09:30–10:00 P2: How ADHD Programmers Use Reddit to Elicit Software Requirements and Approach Design
Divya Madhav Kamath, Vy Bui and Jin L.C. Guo
Discussant: TBD
10:00–10:30 P3: Regression Bugs in Post-Release GitHub Issue Reports: A Pilot Study
Rambod Ghandiparsi, Oluwaseyi Lawal, Pragyan K C and Mitra Bokaei Hosseini
Discussant: TBD
Break
11:00–12:30 Keynote: "TBD" by Norbert Seyff and Eduard C. Groen
Lunch
14:00–14:30 P4: Exploring New Modalities for CrowdRE: Indicators for Explanation Needs
Mohammad El-Jarousha, Hannah Deters, Jakob Droste and Kurt Schneider
Discussant: TBD
14:30–15:00 P5: The Privacy Paradox of Agentic CrowdRE: When LLM Pipelines Harvest More Than You Intend
Rajat Khanna and Jatin Nandal
Discussant: TBD
15:00–15:30 Special Tenth Anniversary Session
Break
16:00–17:15 Roadmapping Session: CrowdRE TwentyThirty
17:15–17:30 Closing by the organisers
Important Dates
  • Paper Submission: 25 May 2026 1 June 2026
  • Notification: 22 June 2026
  • Camera Ready: 2 July 2026
  • Workshop: 17 August 2026

All deadlines at 23:59:59 AoE.