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On Modelers Ability to Build a Visual Diagram from a User Story Set: A Goal-Oriented Approach

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Wautelet, Yves Velghe, Mattijs [KU Leuven] Heng, Samedi [UCL] Poelmans, Stephan [KU Leuven] Kolp, Manuel [UCL]

[Context and Motivation] User Stories (US) are often used as requirement representation artifacts within agile projects. Within US sets, the nature, granularity and inter-dependencies of the elements constituting each US is not or poorly represented. To deal with these drawbacks, previous research allowed to build a unified model for tagging the elements of the WHO, WHAT and WHY dimensions of a US; each tag representing a concept with an inherent nature and defined granularity. Once tagged, the US elements can be graphically represented with an icon and the modeler can define the inter-dependencies between the elements to build one or more so-called Rationale Trees (RT). [Question/Problem] RT and their benefits have been illustrated on case studies but the ability to easily build a RT in a genuine case for software modelers not familiar with the concepts needs to be evaluated. [Principal ideas/results] This paper presents the result of a double exercise aimed to evaluate how well novice and experienced modelers were able to build a RT out of an existing US set. The experiment explicitly forces the test subjects to attribute a concept to US elements and to link these together. [Contribution] On the basis of the conducted experiment, we highlight the encountered difficulties that the lambda modeler faces when building a RT with basic support. Overall, the test subjects have produced models of satisfying quality. Also, we highlight these necessary conditions that need to be provided to the lambda modeler to build a consistent RT.

Document type Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) – Présentation orale avec comité de sélection
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2018
Language Anglais
Conference "International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2018)", Utrecht, The Netherlands (du 19/03/2018 au 22/03/2018)
Journal information "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" - Vol. 10753, p. 209-226 (2018)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0302-9743
e-issn 1611-3349
Publisher Springer (Heidelberg)
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/LouRIM - Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations
Keywords User Story ; Rationale Tree ; Modeling experiment ; Granularity
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Bibliographic reference Wautelet, Yves ; Velghe, Mattijs ; Heng, Samedi ; Poelmans, Stephan ; Kolp, Manuel. On Modelers Ability to Build a Visual Diagram from a User Story Set: A Goal-Oriented Approach.International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2018) (Utrecht, The Netherlands, du 19/03/2018 au 22/03/2018). In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 10753, p. 209-226 (2018)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196195