5th International Workshop on the Twin Peaks of Requirements and Architecture (TwinPeaks 2015)

The relationships and interdependencies between software requirements and the architectures of software-intensive systems are described in the Twin Peaks model. The fundamental idea of the Twin Peaks model is that Requirements Engineering and Software Architecture should not be treated in isolation. Instead, we need to progressively discover and specify requirements while concurrently exploring alternative architectural solutions. However, bridging the gap between Requirements Engineering and Software Architecture has mainly been discussed independently in the respective communities. Therefore, this ICSE workshop aims at bringing together researchers, practitioners and educators from the Requirements Engineering and Software Architecture fields to jointly explore the strong interdependencies between requirements and architecture. Based on the results from previous editions of the workshop, this edition focuses on agile software development contexts and on exploring lightweight techniques for integrating requirements and architectural thinking.