What is essential? – a pilot survey on views about the requirements metamodel of reqT.org
Regnell, Björn LU
(2016)
22nd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2016
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
9619.
p.232-239
- Abstract
[Context & motivation] This research preview paper presents ongoing work on the metamodel of a free software requirements modeling tool called reqT that is developed in an educational context. The work aims to make an initial validation of a survey instrument that elicits views on the metamodel of the reqT tool, which aims to engage computer science students in Requirements Engineering (RE) through an open source DSL embedded in the Scala programming language. [Question] The research question is: Which RE concepts are essential to include in the metamodel for a requirements engineering tool in an educational context? [Principal ideas] A survey instrument is developed, with a list of 92 concepts (49 entities, 15 relations and 28... (More)
[Context & motivation] This research preview paper presents ongoing work on the metamodel of a free software requirements modeling tool called reqT that is developed in an educational context. The work aims to make an initial validation of a survey instrument that elicits views on the metamodel of the reqT tool, which aims to engage computer science students in Requirements Engineering (RE) through an open source DSL embedded in the Scala programming language. [Question] The research question is: Which RE concepts are essential to include in the metamodel for a requirements engineering tool in an educational context? [Principal ideas] A survey instrument is developed, with a list of 92 concepts (49 entities, 15 relations and 28 attributes) and a set of questions for each concept, to elicit the respondents’ views on the usage and interpretation of each concept. [Contribution] The survey is initially validated in a pilot study involving 14 Swedish RE scholars as subjects. The survey results indicate that the survey is feasible. The analysis of the responses suggest that many of the concepts in the metamodel are used frequently by the respondents and there is a large degree of agreement among the respondents about the meaning of the concepts. The results are encouraging for future work on empirical validation of the relevance of the reqT metamodel.
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- author
- Regnell, Björn
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- CASE tool, Embedded domain-specific language, Empirical software engineering, Engineering education, Metamodel, Requirements engineering
- host publication
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
- series title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
- volume
- 9619
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- conference name
- 22nd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2016
- conference location
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2016-03-14 - 2016-03-17
- external identifiers
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- wos:000381857800016
- scopus:84960897355
- ISSN
- 16113349
- 03029743
- ISBN
- 9783319302812
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-30282-9_16
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 711e8ee6-2a9b-453c-bd00-91020182210d
- date added to LUP
- 2016-06-23 13:56:25
- date last changed
- 2024-01-04 08:53:17
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