Save the date for hashtag#REFSQ27 😉
🇨🇭 Basel, Switzerland | 12–15 April 2027
International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality.
- We are delighted to announce the Most Influential Paper Award at #REFSQ26 🏆 to: Garm Lucassen for the paper: “The Use and Effectiveness of User Stories in Practice” by G. Lucassen, F. Dalpiaz, J.M.E.M. van der Werf, and S. Brinkkemper, originally published at REFSQ 2016.
- We are pleased to announce the Open Science Award at #REFSQ26: “Security Under Pressure: How Agile Teams Experience and Manage Security Requirements” by Dahlia Vingtoft Andreasen, Oksana Kulyk, and Elda Paja 🌟 Congratulations to the authors!
- We are delighted to announce the Best Posters & Tools award at #REFSQ26: “EmpiRE-Compass: A Neuro-Symbolic Dashboard for Sustainable and Dynamic Knowledge Exploration, Synthesis, and Reuse” by Oliver Karras, Amirreza Alasti, Lena John, Sushant Aggarwal, and Yücel Celik 🏆
- We are delighted to announce that the paper by Anne Hess, Andreas Vogelsang, Xavier Franch, Andrea Herrmann, Sylwia Kopczynska, and Alexander Rachmann received the Best Paper Award at #REFSQ26! 🏆 Congratulations to all authors!

