A Case Study Evaluation of the Guideline-Supported QUPER Model for Elicitation of Quality Requirements
Berntsson Svensson, Richard LU and Regnell, Björn LU
(2015)
21st International Working Conference, REFSQ 2015
9013.
p.230-246
- Abstract
- [Context & motivation] For market-driven software product developing organizations operating on a competitive open market, it is important to plan the product’s releases so that they can reach the market as early as possible with a competitive level of quality compared to its competitors' products. Hence, quality requirements can be seen as a key competitive advantage. The QUPER model was developed with the aim to support high-level decision-making in release planning of quality requirements. [Question/problem] As a follow up on previous studies on QUPER, this study investigates: What are practitioner's views on the utilities of QUPER extended with guidelines including domain-specific examples? [Principal ideas/results] In the... (More)
- [Context & motivation] For market-driven software product developing organizations operating on a competitive open market, it is important to plan the product’s releases so that they can reach the market as early as possible with a competitive level of quality compared to its competitors' products. Hence, quality requirements can be seen as a key competitive advantage. The QUPER model was developed with the aim to support high-level decision-making in release planning of quality requirements. [Question/problem] As a follow up on previous studies on QUPER, this study investigates: What are practitioner's views on the utilities of QUPER extended with guidelines including domain-specific examples? [Principal ideas/results] In the presented case study, a set of detailed guidelines of how to apply QUPER in practice, including how to handle cost dependencies between quality requirements, was evaluated at a case company in the mobile handset domain with 24 professionals using real quality requirements. [Contribution] The results point to the importance of having concrete guidelines combined with instructive examples from real practice, while it is not always obvious for a practitioner to transfer cost-dependency examples into the domains that are different from the example domain. The transferability of guidelines and examples to support methodology adoption is an interesting issue for further research. (Less)
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- author
- Berntsson Svensson, Richard
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LU
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- publishing date
- 2015
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- software engineering, requirements engineering, release planning, QUPER, quality requirements, empirical case study
- host publication
- Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality/Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- volume
- 9013
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- conference name
- 21st International Working Conference, REFSQ 2015
- conference location
- Essen, Germany
- conference dates
- 2015-03-23 - 2015-03-26
- external identifiers
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- wos:000361752700015
- scopus:84930425920
- ISSN
- 1611-3349
- 0302-9743
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-16100-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-16101-3_15
- project
- Embedded Applications Software Engineering
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- English
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