A Literature Survey on International Standards for Systems Requirements Engineering

Since 2005, the international organization for standardization (ISO) has published a wealth of standards and reports that deal with requirements engineering for systems. ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 defines a standard vocabulary for systems and software engineering. ISO/IEC 24766 defines requirements for requirements engineering tools. ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 describes processes for requirements engineering. The ISO 25000 series targets product quality metrics. This review paper shall provide a high-level description of each of these standards and highlights their interconnection. It thus provides to the systems engineer some guidance as to the relevance of those standards to his or her work.