Multimedia resources as a support for requirements engineering and software maintenance

Abstract

Textual documentations are frequently used in the software development process to outline features and behaviors of an application. For some people, textual descriptions may not be enough to understand what is being developed. In this scenario, multimedia resources appear as an option for software documentation, providing other ways to observe and interpret information.ObjectiveTo identify and characterize the approaches and techniques which promote the use of multimedia in requirements engineering (RE) to support software development and maintenance.MethodA systematic mapping was conducted to find the primary studies in the literature and collect evidence for directing future research.ResultsOnly 27.66% of the approaches found validated their solutions through controlled experiments, showing the need to increase the use of scientific method in this area, with replications of studies that will allow to evaluating if other researchers independently will come up with the same results. In this context, the approaches/techniques identified were TRECE, MURMER, Wiki System Multimedia, Storytelling, Virtual World Environment, VisionCatcher, PRESTO4U, ReqVidA, CrowdRE, AVW, The Software Cinema Technique, Dolli Project, UTOPIA, and approaches without explicit names, which, as a rule, use multimedia resources as an additional support.ConclusionsThere was a favorable consensus regarding the use of multimedia in RE. The selected studies demonstrated to be favorable to the adoption of media to persist and store the requirements of a system. Moreover, multimedia resources can improve the process of understanding the code and decrease evolution and maintenance costs.General terms are design, documentation, experimentation, human factors, multimedia, reliability, software engineering, verification, and security.

Evaluation of a process for the Experimental Development of Data Mining, AI and Data Science applications aligned with the Strategic Planning

“…In other words, what will happen to Data Mining in this case is the addition of new features that can describe the data in new manners through the discovery of patterns, and/or that can execute useful predictions to the strategy. BI User Stories may be improved or new ones may be created, by also considering the use of dynamic medias (multimedia) associated with the project, which can contain recordings of interviews and reports of clients about the desired features, such as those suggested in (Colaço Júnior et al, 2017) and in (Santos et al, 2020). Therefore, in this subactivity, the delivery object is the overall data mining goal, as well as the predictions and new visualization ways that will be available, based on the GQM questions (or strategic goals), in order to generally describe the visual and predictive insights of the current increment of the mining project, from the viewpoint of the Specific Client or the Specific Area, in the context of the business organization, influenced by the selected goal and the current increment of the mining project.…”