Eric Knauss

Senior Lecturer

Testing, Requirements, Innovation and Psychology

(SE-TRIP)

Telephone

+46 31-772 10 80

Mail

eric.knauss@cse.gu.se

Visiting address

Hörselgången 5

41756 Göteborg

Room number

480

Postal address

Chalmers

41296 Göteborg

About Eric Knauss

Eric is an Assistant Professor (Universitetslektor) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg. His research interests focuses on managing requirements and related knowledge in large-scale and distributed software projects. Research topics include Requirements Engineering, Software Ecosystems, Global and Cross-Organizational Software Development, and Agile Methods. Read more on Eric's private blog.

Publications

Requirement Engineering Challenges for AI-intense Systems
Development

Hans-Martin Heyn, Eric Knauss, Amna Pir Muhammad, Olof Eriksson, Jennifer Linder, Padmini Subbiah, Shameer Kumar Pradhan, Sagar Tungal
ICSE '21: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on AI Engineering – Software Engineering for AI - 2021-01-01
Constructive Master's Thesis Work in Industry: Guidelines for Applying Design Science
Research

Eric Knauss
Proc. of 43rd Int. Conf. on Software Eng. (ICSE), Joint Software Engineering Education and Training (JSEET) track - 2021-01-01
Requirements engineering challenges and practices in large-scale agile system
development

Rashidah Kasauli, Eric Knauss, Jennifer Horkoff, Grischa Liebel, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto
Journal of Systems and Software - 2021-01-01
Impediments and Enablers for the Automotive Virtual Verification
Ecosystem

Magnus Ågren, Eric Knauss, Paolo Giusto, Grant Soremekun, Rogardt Heldal, Daniela Damian
IEEE Software - 2020-01-01
Agile Islands in a Waterfall Environment: Requirements Engineering Challenges and Strategies in
Automotive

Rashidah Kasauli, Eric Knauss, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Benjamin Kanagwa
Proc. of International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) - 2020-01-01
Collaborative traceability management: a multiple case study from the perspectives of organization, process, and
culture

Rebekka Wohlrab, Eric Knauss, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Salome Maro, Anthony Anjorin, Patrizio Pelliccione
Requirements Engineering - 2020-01-01
Why and How to Balance Alignment and Diversity of Requirements Engineering Practices in
Automotive

Rebekka Wohlrab, Eric Knauss, Patrizio Pelliccione
Journal of Systems and Software - 2020-01-01
Emerging Perspectives of Application Programming Interface Strategy: A Framework to Respond to Business
Concerns

Juho Lindman, Jennifer Horkoff, Eric Knauss, Imed Hammouda
Journal First track of ESEC/FSE 2020 - 2020-01-01
Article (Wohlrab2020) Wohlrab, R.; Pelliccione, P.; Shahrokni, A. & Knauss, E. Why and How Your Traceability Should Evolve: Insights from an Automotive
Supplier

Rebekka Wohlrab, Patrizio Pelliccione, Ali Shahrokni, Eric Knauss
IEEE Software - 2020-01-01
Emerging Perspectives of Application Programming Interface Strategy: A Framework to Respond to Business
Concerns

Juho Lindman, Jennifer Horkoff, Imed Hammouda, Eric Knauss
IEEE Software - 2020-01-01
Beyond Connected Cars: a Systems of Systems
perspective

Patrizio Pelliccione, Eric Knauss, Magnus Ågren, Rogardt Heldal, Carl Bergenhem, Alexey Vinel, Oliver Brunnegård
Science of Computer Programming - 2020-01-01
Charting Coordination Needs in Large-Scale Agile Organizations with Boundary Objects and Methodological
Islands

Rashidah Kasauli, Rebekka Wohlrab, Eric Knauss, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Jennifer Horkoff, Salome Maro
Proc. of Int. Conf. on Software and System Processes (ICSSP), Seoul, South Korea - 2020-01-01
Use, Potential, and Showstoppers of Models in Automotive Requirements
Engineering

Grischa Liebel, Matthias Tichy, Eric Knauss
Journal of Software and Systems Modeling - 2019-01-01
Challenges of Scaled Agile for Safety-Critical
Systems

Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Eric Knauss, Jennifer Horkoff, Rebekka Wohlrab
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 2019-01-01
Strategic API Analysis and Planning: APIS Technical
Report

Jennifer Horkhoff, Juho Lindman, Imed Hammouda, Eric Knauss
- 2019-01-01
Boundary Objects and their Use in Agile Systems Engineering
Organizations

Rebekka Wohlrab, Patrizio Pelliccione, Eric Knauss, Mats Larsson
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process - 2019-01-01
The impact of requirements on systems development speed: a multiple-case study in
automotive

Magnus Ågren, Eric Knauss, Rogardt Heldal, Patrizio Pelliccione, Gösta Malmqvist, Jonas Bodén
Requirements Engineering - 2019-01-01
On Interfaces to Support Agile Architecting in Automotive: An Exploratory Case
Study

Rebekka Wohlrab, Patrizio Pelliccione, Eric Knauss, Rogardt Heldal
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Architecture (ICSA) - 2019-01-01
The missing requirements perspective in large-scale agile system
development

Eric Knauss
IEEE Software - 2019-01-01
Experiences Applying e3 Value Modeling in a Cross-Company
Study

Jennifer Horkoff, Juho Lindman, Imed Hammouda, Eric Knauss
Proceedings of 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2018), Lecture Notes in Computer Science - 2018-01-01
Involving External Stakeholders in Project
Courses

Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, H. Burden, Regina Hebig, Gul Calikli, Robert Feldt, Imed Hammouda, Jennifer Horkoff, Eric Knauss, Grischa Liebel
ACM Transactions on Computing Education - 2018-01-01
Transparency and Contracts: Continuous Integration and Delivery in the Automotive
Ecosystem

Rob van der Valk, Patrizio Pelliccione, Patricia Lago, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss, Jacob Juul
40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track (ICSE-SEIP 2018), 27 May - 3 June 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden. - 2018-01-01
Boundary Objects in Agile Practices: Continuous Management of Systems Engineering Artifacts in the Automotive
Domain

Rebekka Wohlrab, Patrizio Pelliccione, Eric Knauss, Mats Larsson
ICSSP ’18: International Conference on the Software and Systems Process 2018 (ICSSP ’18), May 26–27, 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden. - 2018-01-01
Modeling Support for Strategic API Planning and
Analysis

Jennifer Horkoff, Juho Lindman, Imed Hammouda, Eric Knauss, Jamel Debbiche, Martina Freiholz, Patrick Liao, Stephen Mensah, Aksel Strömberg
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing - 2018-01-01
Safety-Critical Systems and Agile Development: A Mapping
Study

Rashidah Kasauli, Eric Knauss, Benjamin Kanagwa, Agneta Nilsson, Gul Calikli
44TH EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND ADVANCED APPLICATIONS (SEAA 2018) - 2018-01-01
Boundary Objects in Agile Practices: Continuous Management of Systems Engineering Artifacts in the Automotive
Domain

Rebekka Wohlrab, Patrizio Pelliccione, Eric Knauss, Mats G. Larson
0th Int. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Poster Track - 2018-01-01
The Manager Perspective on Requirements Impact on Automotive Systems Development
Speed

Magnus Ågren, Eric Knauss, Rogardt Heldal, Patrizio Pelliccione, Gösta Malmqvist, Jonas Boden
Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) - 2018-01-01
A Model of Estimating the Strategic Development of a Company on the Base of Expert
Knowledge

A.A. Zakharova, T.Y. Chernysheva, O.A. Kolegova, E.V. Molnina, Eric Knauss
Proceedings of 3rd Russian-Pacific Conference on Computer Technology and Applications (RPC) - 2018-01-01
T-Reqs: Tool Support for Managing Requirements in Large-Scale Agile System
Development

Eric Knauss, Grischa Liebel, Jennifer Horkoff, Rebekka Wohlrab, Rashidah Kasauli, Filip Lange, Pierre Gildert
Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'18) - 2018-01-01
Continuous Clarification and Emergent Requirements Flows in Open-Commercial Software
Ecosystems

Eric Knauss, Aminah Yussuf, Kelly Blincoe, Daniela Damian, Alessia Knauss
Requirements Engineering - 2018-01-01
Organisation and Communication Problems in Automotive Requirements
Engineering

Grischa Liebel, Matthias Tichy, Eric Knauss, Oscar Ljungkrantz, Gerald Stieglbauer
Requirements Engineering - 2018-01-01
The Problem of Consolidating RE Practices at Scale: An Ethnographic
Study

Rebekka Wohlrab, Patrizio Pelliccione, Eric Knauss, Sarah Gregory
REFSQ’18 -- 24th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality - 2018-01-01
Hybrid Software and Systems Development in Practice: Perspectives from Sweden and
Uganda

Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Benjamin Kanagwa, Regina Hebig, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss
International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2017, pp. 413-419 - 2017-01-01
Initial Results of the HELENA Survey Conducted in Estonia with Comparison to Results from Sweden and
Worldwide

Ezequiel Scott, Dietmar Pfahl, Regina Hebig, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss
Lecture Notes of Computer Science, volume 10611 - 2017-01-01
Challenges of Aligning Requirements Engineering and System Testing in Large-Scale Agile: A Multiple Case
Study

Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto, Jennifer Horkoff, Eric Knauss, Rashidah Kasauli, Grischa Liebel
2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), 4-8 Sept. 2017, Lisbon, Portugal - 2017-01-01
On the Role of Fitness Dimensions in API Design Assessment: An Empirical
Investigation

Amir Zghidi, Imed Hammouda, Brahim Hnich, Eric Knauss
Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on API Usage and Evolution (WAPI '17), co-located with ICSE 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentinia - 2017-01-01
Quality Requirements in Agile as a Knowledge Management Problem: More than
Just-in-Time

Eric Knauss, Grischa Liebel, Kurt Schneider, Jennifer Horkoff, Rashidah Kasauli
2nd International Workshop on Just-In-Time Requirements Engineering: Dealing with Non-Functional Requirements in Agile Software Development (JITRE@RE17) - 2017-01-01
Requirements Engineering Challenges in Large-Scale Agile System
Development

Rashidah Kasauli, Grischa Liebel, Eric Knauss, Swathi Gopakumar, Benjamin Kanagwa
25 th International Requirements Engineering Conference, 4-8 Sept. 2017, Lisbon, Portugal - 2017-01-01
How do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research? An Ongoing
Study

Xavier Franch, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Marc Oriol Hilari , Andreas Vogelsang, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss, Guilherme Travassos, Jeffrey C. Carver, Oscar Dieste, Thomas Zimmermann
25th International Requirements Engineering Conference, 4-8 Sept. 2017, Lisbon, Portugal - 2017-01-01
Adding Value Every Sprint: A Case Study on Large-Scale Continuous Requirements
Engineering

Rashidah Kasauli, Eric Knauss, Agneta Nilsson, Sara Klug
Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Continuous Requirements Engineering (CRE@REFSQ). Essen. Germany, 27/2-2/3, 2017 - 2017-01-01
Herding cats in a FOSS ecosystem: a tale of communication and coordination for release
management

Germán Poo-Caamaño, Eric Knauss, Leif Singer, Daniel M. German
Journal of Internet Services and Applications - 2017-01-01
Loco Coco: Automatically constructing coordination and communication networks from model-based systems engineering
data

Mazen Mohamad, Grischa Liebel, Eric Knauss
Information and Software Technology - 2017-01-01
Modelling Behavioural Requirements and Alignment with Verification in the Embedded
Industry

Grischa Liebel, Anthony Anjorin, Eric Knauss, Florian Lorber, Matthias Tichy
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, Porto, Portugal - 2017-01-01
Automotive Architecture Framework: the experience of Volvo
Cars

Patrizio Pelliccione, Eric Knauss, Rogardt Heldal, Magnus Ågren, Piergiuseppe Mallozzi, Anders Alminger, Daniel Borgentun
Journal of systems architecture - 2017-01-01
Continuous Integration Beyond the Team: A Tooling Perspective on Challenges in the Automotive
Industry

Eric Knauss, Patrizio Pelliccione, Rogardt Heldal, Magnus Ågren, Sofia Hellman, Daniel Maniette
Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM '16) - 2016-01-01
Teaching Agile: Addressing the Conflict Between Project Delivery and Application of Agile
Methods

Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Eric Knauss, Emil Alégroth, Imed Hammouda, Håkan Burden, Morgan Ericsson
Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016) - 2016-01-01
Collaborative Traceability Management: Challenges and
Opportunities

Rebekka Wohlrab, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Eric Knauss, Salome Maro, Anthony Anjorin
Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE' 16) - 2016-01-01
A proposal for an Automotive Architecture Framework for Volvo
Cars

Patrizio Pelliccione, Eric Knauss, Rogardt Heldal, Magnus Ågren, Piergiuseppe Mallozzi, Anders Alminger, Daniel Borgentun
Second International Workshop on Automotive Software Architectures @WICSA/CompArch 2016 April 5 2016, Venice, Italy - 2016-01-01
Herding cats: A case study of release management in an open collaboration
ecosystem

Germán Poo-Caamaño, Leif Singer, Eric Knauss, Daniel M. German
12th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities, OSS 2016; Gothenburg; Sweden; 30 May 2016 through 2 June 2016 - 2016-01-01
Scaling up the Planning Game: Collaboration Challenges in Large Scale Agile Product
Development

Felix Evbota, Eric Knauss, Anna Sandberg
17th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, XP 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 24-27 May 2016 - 2016-01-01
Verdict Machinery: On the need to automatically make sense of test
results

Mikael Fagerström, Emre Emir Ismail, Grischa Liebel, Rohit Guliani, Fredrik Larsson, Karin Nordling, Eric Knauss, Patrizio Pelliccione
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA '16) - 2016-01-01
The Need of Complementing Plan-Driven Requirements Engineering with Emerging Communication: Experiences from Volvo Car
Group

Ulf Eliasson, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss, Patrizio Pelliccione
23rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2015, Ottawa, Canada, 24-28 August - 2015-01-01
Continuous API Design for Software
Ecosystems

Eric Knauss, L. Costantini, Imed Hammouda
Proceedings - 2nd International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering, RCoSE 2015 - 2015-01-01
Challenges of Requirements Engineering in AUTOSAR
ecosystems

M. Soltani, Eric Knauss
2015 IEEE 23rd International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2015 - Proceedings - 2015-01-01
The Driving Forces of API
Evolution

William Granli, John Burchell, Imed Hammouda, Eric Knauss
ESEC/FSE 2015 Workshops - 14th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2015) proceedings - 2015-01-01
Cross-Organizational Challenges of Requirements Engineering in the AUTOSAR Ecosystem: An Exploratory Case
Study

Mozhan Soltani, Eric Knauss
2015 IEEE Fifth International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering - 2015-01-01
Teaching scrum – what we did, what we will do and what impedes
us

Emil Alégroth, Håkan Burden, Morgan Ericsson, Imed Hammouda, Eric Knauss, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing - 2015-01-01
Research Preview: Supporting Requirements Feedback Flows in Iterative System
Development

Eric Knauss, Andreas Andersson, Michael Rybacki, Erik Israelsson
Lecture Notes in Computer Science: 21st International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2015, Essen, Germany, 23-26 March 2015 - 2015-01-01
The Role of Secondary Software in Automotive
Ecosystems

Nelson Sekitoleko, Eric Knauss, Daniela Damian, Imed Hammouda
Proceedings of European Open Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering - 2015-01-01
Cross-Organizational Challenges of Requirements Engineering in the AUTOSAR Ecosystem: A Case
Study

Mozhan Soltani, Eric Knauss
Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering at RE '15 - 2015-01-01
Challenges of Requirements Engineering in AUTOSAR
Ecosystems

Mozhan Soltani, Eric Knauss
Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference - 2015-01-01
Continuous API-Design for Software
Ecosystems

Imed Hammouda, Eric Knauss, Leonardo Constantini
Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Rapid and Continuous Software Engeering (RCoSE '15 @ ICSE) - 2015-01-01
Supporting Continuous Integration by Code-Churn Based Test
Selection

Eric Knauss, Miroslaw Staron, Wilhelm Meding, Ola Söder, Agneta Nilsson, Magnus Castell
RCoSE - 2nd International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering @ ICSE 2015 Florence, Italy - 2015-01-01
(Semi-)Automatic Categorization of Natural Language
Requirements

Eric Knauss, Daniel Ott
20th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2014), Springer LNCS 8396, Essen, Germany - 2014-01-01
Technical Dependency Challenges in Large-Scale Agile Software
Development

Nelson Sekitoleko, Felix Evbota, Eric Knauss, Anna Sandberg, Michel Chaudron, Helena Olsson Holmström
Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP '14) - 2014-01-01
Agile Development in Automotive Software Development: Challenges and
Opportunities

Brian Katumba, Eric Knauss
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, Lecture Notes in Computer Science - 2014-01-01
Openness and Requirements: Opportunities and Tradeoffs in Software
Ecosystems

Eric Knauss, Daniela Damian, Alessia Knauss, Arber Borici
Proceedings of 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE '14) - 2014-01-01
EAM: Ecosystemability Assessment
Method

Eric Knauss, Imed Hammouda
2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), Aug 25-29, Karlskrona, Sverige - 2014-01-01
Dedicated Support for Experience Sharing in Distributed Software
Projects

Anna Averbakh, Eric Knauss, Stephan Kiesling, Kurt Schneider
Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE '14) - 2014-01-01
Patterns of Continuous Requirements
Clarification

Eric Knauss, Daniela Damian, Jane Cleland-Huang, Remko Helms
Requirements Engineering - 2014-01-01