TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating and comparing perceptions between undergraduate students and practitioners in controlled experiments for requirements prioritization
AU - Pow-Sang, José Antonio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
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 in software development projects. This paper presents a perceptions evaluation of the UCPD based on the Method Evaluation Model (MEM), where the intention to use a method is determined by the users’ perceptions. Perceptions were collected using a questionnaire which was applied immediately after the controlled experiments were carried out. Those controlled experiments were replicated twice with undergraduate students, and twice with practitioners. The results show that the intentions to use UCPD exist in undergraduate students and practitioners with at least 2 years of experience in the industry, but the relationships defined by the MEM are best confirmed with the results obtained with practitioners.
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 in software development projects. This paper presents a perceptions evaluation of the UCPD based on the Method Evaluation Model (MEM), where the intention to use a method is determined by the users’ perceptions. Perceptions were collected using a questionnaire which was applied immediately after the controlled experiments were carried out. Those controlled experiments were replicated twice with undergraduate students, and twice with practitioners. The results show that the intentions to use UCPD exist in undergraduate students and practitioners with at least 2 years of experience in the industry, but the relationships defined by the MEM are best confirmed with the results obtained with practitioners.
KW - Method adoption model
KW - Method evaluation model
KW - Requirements precedence
KW - Requirements prioritization
KW - Software engineering experimentation
KW - UCPD
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84983110938&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-26285-7_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-26285-7_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84983110938
SN - 9783319262833
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 189
EP - 199
BT - Trends and Applications in Software Engineering - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software Process Improvement, CIMPS 2015
A2 - Mejia, Jezreel
A2 - Munoz, Mirna
A2 - Rocha, Alvaro
A2 - Calvo-Manzano, Jose
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 4th International Conference on Software Process Improvement, CIMPS 2015
Y2 - 28 October 2015 through 30 October 2015
ER -