How prior knowledge affects users understanding of system requirements
Requirements are critical to system validation as they guide all subsequent stages of systems development. Inadequately specified requirements generate systems that require major revisions or cause system failure entirely. Use Cases have become the main vehicle for requirements capture in many curre...
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| description | Requirements are critical to system validation as they guide all subsequent stages of systems development. Inadequately specified requirements generate systems that require major revisions or cause system failure entirely. Use Cases have become the main vehicle for requirements capture in many current Object Oriented (OO) development methodologies, and a means for developers to communicate with different stakeholders. In this paper we present the results of a laboratory experiment that explored whether different types of use case format are equally effective in facilitating high knowledge user understanding. Results showed that the provision of diagrams along with the textual use case descriptions significantly improved user comprehension of system requirements in both familiar and unfamiliar application domains. However, when comparing groups that received models of textual description accompanied with diagrams of different level of details (simple and detailed) we found no significant difference in performance. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-152712020-08-30T08:46:17Z http://eprints.utm.my/15271/ How prior knowledge affects users understanding of system requirements Mustafa, Balsam Deris, Safaai QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Requirements are critical to system validation as they guide all subsequent stages of systems development. Inadequately specified requirements generate systems that require major revisions or cause system failure entirely. Use Cases have become the main vehicle for requirements capture in many current Object Oriented (OO) development methodologies, and a means for developers to communicate with different stakeholders. In this paper we present the results of a laboratory experiment that explored whether different types of use case format are equally effective in facilitating high knowledge user understanding. Results showed that the provision of diagrams along with the textual use case descriptions significantly improved user comprehension of system requirements in both familiar and unfamiliar application domains. However, when comparing groups that received models of textual description accompanied with diagrams of different level of details (simple and detailed) we found no significant difference in performance. 2009 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Mustafa, Balsam and Deris, Safaai (2009) How prior knowledge affects users understanding of system requirements. In: International Conference on Software Science and Engineering (ICSSE 2009), 2009, Pulau Pinang. http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:100018 |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Mustafa, Balsam Deris, Safaai How prior knowledge affects users understanding of system requirements |
| title | How prior knowledge affects users understanding of system requirements |
| title_full | How prior knowledge affects users understanding of system requirements |
| title_fullStr | How prior knowledge affects users understanding of system requirements |
| title_full_unstemmed | How prior knowledge affects users understanding of system requirements |
| title_short | How prior knowledge affects users understanding of system requirements |
| title_sort | how prior knowledge affects users understanding of system requirements |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
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