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A Case Study Evaluation of the Guideline-Supported QUPER Model for Elicitation of Quality Requirements

Berntsson Svensson, Richard LU and Regnell, Björn LU orcid (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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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
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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
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Embedded Applications Software Engineering
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English
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  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 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.}},
  author       = {{Berntsson Svensson, Richard and Regnell, Björn}},
  booktitle    = {{Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality/Lecture Notes in Computer Science}},
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  issn         = {{1611-3349}},
  keywords     = {{software engineering; requirements engineering; release planning; QUPER; quality requirements; empirical case study}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{230--246}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  title        = {{A Case Study Evaluation of the Guideline-Supported QUPER Model for Elicitation of Quality Requirements}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/8093605/Evaluation_of_the_guideline_supported_QUPER_model.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-319-16101-3_15}},
  volume       = {{9013}},
  year         = {{2015}},
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