Effects of Using Requirements Catalogs on Effectiveness and Productivity of Requirements Specification in a Software Project Management Course
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20296435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José Luis Fernández‐Alemán (0000-0002-0176-450X, Universidad de Murcia), Juan Manuel Carrillo de Gea (0000-0002-3320-622X, Universidad de Murcia), Juan Manuel Carrillo-de-Gea, Joaquin Vidal Meca (Universidad de Murcia), Joaquín Nicolás (0000-0003-1760-3804, Universidad de Murcia), Joaquin Nicolas Ros, Ambrosio Toval (0000-0002-8273-5937, Universidad de Murcia), Ali Idri (0000-0002-4586-4158, Mohammed V University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 105-118 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IEEE Transactions on Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-9359 • E-ISSN: 1557-9638 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1109/te.2015.2454472 |
| OpenAlex | W2349522674 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 56 |
This paper presents the results of two educational experiments carried out to determine whether the process of specifying requirements (catalog-based reuse as opposed to conventional specification) has an impact on effectiveness and productivity in co-located and distributed software development environments. The participants in the experiments were 76 students enrolled in three courses on project management for software development at the University of Murcia, Spain, and the Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco. The results of a fixed effects meta-analysis (Hedges' g) obtained a medium effect ( -0.495, p=0.034) for productivity, and a large effect ( -1.077, ) for effectiveness, in favor of using a catalog-based reuse process rather than a conventional specification process. The other co-factor examined, distribution (either global or co-located), had no statistically significant interaction with the process used (catalog-based reuse or conventional specification) for either effectiveness or productivity. Further research is required to study the effectiveness and productivity of the catalog-based requirements engineering learning method so that it can be taught in software engineering courses and applied in real software engineering projects
Engineering management · Operating system · Process (computing) · Productivity · Requirements engineering · Reuse · Software design · Software development · Software engineering · Software requirements · Computer Science · Engineering · Open Source Software Innovations · Software · Software Engineering Research · Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
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