Exploring the Directives of Communicability for Improving the Quality of Software Artifacts

Lopes, Adriana; Conte, Tayana; Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius de

doi:10.1145/3439961.3439974

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“…This paper extends our previous work (Lopes et al, 2020), presenting a study carried out to analyze communication via artifacts in a software development team. We conducted this study in a software team with fourteen practitioners that worked on a cooperation project between the University of Brasilia (UnB) and the Brazilian Army.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…With this research (Lopes et al, 2020), we observed that the DCs promoted the participants' reflection on their communication to the others involved in the development of a software. The DCs also made it possible to reduce the introduction of defects, because we perceived consistent mapping between the risks of miscommunication and software defects.…”

Section: Analysis Of Acceptancementioning

confidence: 85%

“…We conducted a first study that evaluates the practitioners' perception of the DCs from 15 practitioners regarding their support during artifacts development (Lopes et al, 2020). In this study, the participants applied the DCs in UML use cases, that is, in the use case diagram and specification.…”

Section: Study 1: Evaluation Of the Dcs From The Practitioners' Perce...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the context above, we conducted an exploratory study (Lopes et al, 2020) to evaluate practitioners' perceptions of the DCs. Fifteen practitioners participated in this study by modeling UML use case (OMG, 2015) with the support of DCs.…”

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Towards to Transfer the Directives of Communicability to Software Projects: Qualitative Studies

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The software artifacts developed in the early stages of the development process describe the proposed solutions for the software. For this reason, these artifacts are commonly used to support communication among members of the development team. Miscommunication through software artifacts occurs because practitioners typically focus on their modeling, without reflecting on how other software development team members interpret them. In this context, we proposed the Directives of Communicability (DCs) to support practitioners analyzing characteristics that affect the artifact’s content on communication via artifact. We conducted preliminary studies in a controlled environment with our proposal. However, we noticed that new studies are necessary to evaluate the DCs concerning practitioners’ perceptions before transferring them to the industry. In this paper, we present two studies performed aiming to transfer the DCs to the software industry. In the first study, we evaluated the practitioners’ perception about the DCs. In the second study, we evaluated the feasibility of the DCs in a software development team. The studies’ results indicated that DCs have the potential to support improvements in artifacts’ content to reduce miscommunication via artifact. To facilitate the use of our proposal in the software industry, we created procedures that support the adoption of the DCs and checklists for the application of each directive in the software artifacts. We noticed positive perceptions of practitioners about the application of DCs in software artifacts. We hope that our contribution support software development teams that use artifacts in your projects.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 56%

Section: Analysis Of Acceptancementioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Study 1: Evaluation Of the Dcs From The Practitioners' Perce...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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