TY - GEN
T1 - A replicated experiment with undergraduate students to evaluate the applicability of a use case precedence diagram based approach in software projects
AU - Pow-Sang, José Antonio
AU - Imbert, Ricardo
AU - Moreno, Ana María
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The Use Case Precedence Diagram (UCPD) is a technique that addresses the problem of determining the construction sequence or prioritization of a software product from the developer's perspective. This paper presents a replicated controlled experiment with undergraduate students. The results obtained from this experiment confirm the results obtained in previous studies with practitioners in which the proposed approach enables developers to define construction sequences more precisely than with other ad-hoc techniques. However, unlike previous studies with practitioners, qualitative evaluation of the UCPD based on the Method Adoption Model (MAM), where the intention to use a method is determined by the users' perceptions, shows that the relationships defined by the MAM are not confirmed with the results obtained with undergraduate students.
AB - The Use Case Precedence Diagram (UCPD) is a technique that addresses the problem of determining the construction sequence or prioritization of a software product from the developer's perspective. This paper presents a replicated controlled experiment with undergraduate students. The results obtained from this experiment confirm the results obtained in previous studies with practitioners in which the proposed approach enables developers to define construction sequences more precisely than with other ad-hoc techniques. However, unlike previous studies with practitioners, qualitative evaluation of the UCPD based on the Method Adoption Model (MAM), where the intention to use a method is determined by the users' perceptions, shows that the relationships defined by the MAM are not confirmed with the results obtained with undergraduate students.
KW - Method Adoption Model
KW - UCPD
KW - controlled experiment
KW - requirements precedence
KW - software engineering experimentation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=83755161355&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-27207-3_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-27207-3_17
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83755161355
SN - 9783642272066
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 169
EP - 179
BT - Software Eng. Business Continuity and Education-Int. Conf ASEA, DRBC and EL 2011,Held as Part of the Future Generation Inf. Technology Conf. FGIT 2011, in Conjunction with GDC 2011,Proc.
T2 - 2011 Int.Conf.on Advanced Software Eng.and Its Applications,ASEA 2011,Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity,DRBC 2011,and Education and Learning,EL 2011,Held as Part of the 3rd Int.Mega-Conf.on Future-Generation Inform.Tech.FGIT 2011
Y2 - 8 December 2011 through 10 December 2011
ER -