Analysis of virtual workspaces

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering

Kitchenham

Gorton

2006

Scenario-based methods for evaluating software architecture require a large number of stakeholders to be collocated for evaluation sessions. Collocating stakeholders is often an expensive exercise. We have proposed a framework for distributed evaluation process. We present the proposed framework and initial results of a controlled experiment that we ran to assess the effectiveness of the proposed idea.

Section: Table 1 Experimental Design and Group Assignmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a distributed software architecture evaluation process

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering

Kitchenham

Gorton

2006

Scenario-based methods for evaluating software architecture require a large number of stakeholders to be collocated for evaluation sessions. Collocating stakeholders is often an expensive exercise. We have proposed a framework for distributed evaluation process. We present the proposed framework and initial results of a controlled experiment that we ran to assess the effectiveness of the proposed idea.

“…Figure 3 shows the structure of a workspace to support a distributed SA evaluation process. All the objects of Eworkspace are related with one another according to a model of collaboration presented in [11].…”

Section: Electronic Workpacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Framework for Supporting the Software Architecture Evaluation Process in Global Software Development

2009 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering

2009

“…They also received training on using a collaborative tool, LiveNet [9], which was used to support the distributed meeting arrangements. This collaborative application was an integral part of the course as the students were required to use the application to participate in the discussions on course related topics.…”

Section: Participants and Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed versus face-to-face meetings for architecture evalution

Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Kitchenham

Jeffery

2006

Scenario-based methods for evaluating software architecture require a large number of stakeholders to be collocated for evaluation sessions. Collocating stakeholders is often an expensive exercise. To reduce expense, we have proposed a framework for supporting software architecture evaluation process using groupware systems. This paper presents a controlled experiment that we conducted to assess the effectiveness of scenario profile construction using distributed meetings. We used a cross-over experiment involving 32 teams of three 3 rd and 4 th year undergraduate students. We found that the quality of scenarios produced by distributed teams using a groupware tool were significantly better than the quality of scenarios produced by face-to-face teams (p<0.001). However, questionnaires indicated that most participants preferred the face-toface arrangement (82%) and 60% thought the distributed meetings were less efficient. We conclude that distributed meetings are extremely effective but that tool support must be of a high standard or participants will not find distributed meetings acceptable.