Agile approaches arose as a way of addressing some of the main challenges in software development. Some of the challenges are changing requirements, lack of understanding about the system's scope, and out-of-sync between code, requirements, and documentation. Software companies' professionals have adopted Design Thinking (DT) to support software development to understand better what customers want, fostering the creation of features and products. Due to the importance of requirement engineering to software development success, this study aimed to characterize what DT benefits and challenges were perceived in requirements engineering by the Brazilian software development community. The current study used mixed methods combining two qualitative methods, a focus group to collect and understand the professionals' DT usage opinions and a survey to confirm the professionals' challenges and benefits. This study identified that DT has helped the professionals improve the requirements gathering and specification, reflecting on better users' real needs understanding and building fittable solutions to support them. The results serve to understand better DT potential, perceived by software industry professionals, to anticipate and support these issues with other professionals.
CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Requirements analysis;
O controle de ciclo menstrual é uma das maiores dores de cabeça das mulheres. Saber quando foi a última menstruação, quando iniciou a cartela do anticoncepcional e quando é a janela de fertilidade são algumas das muitas preocupações do público feminino. Hoje, a abrangência do uso de smartphones e a quantidade de aplicativos que ajudam a gerenciar atividades diárias, trouxe consigo uma solução para os anseios das mulheres. Neste contexto, foi realizada a avaliação do aplicativo Clue, a fim de entender como ele auxilia no acompanhamento do ciclo menstrual. Para isto, foram utilizados dois métodos de avaliação: como método de inspeção foi utilizado o Percurso Cognitivo e como método de observação de uso foi utilizada a Avaliação de Comunicabilidade. Foi possível verificar que o aplicativo possui alguns problemas relacionados com a comunicação, mas que, de maneira geral, os usuários se mostraram satisfeitos com seu uso.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.