Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain

Souza, Pedro Lopes de; Prado, Antonio Francisco do; Souza, Wanderley Lopes de; Pereira, Sissi Marilia dos Santos Forghieri; Pires, Luís Ferreira

doi:10.5220/0006336804490458

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“…Mentioned benefits of a feature file are that it is easy to understand, provides insights into the code's intention, and provides an outline of the requirements. The benefits that we identified further corroborate the benefits of BDD reported in past studies [3,10,22]. Participants, however, also experienced a steep learning curve, a challenge that has been also reported in [3].…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Existing literature has identified several benefits of BDD as well as challenges. Benefits associated with BDD, particularly due to the use of plain text description in a scenario include improved traceability between requirement specification and code [22], improved understandability of the requirement specification, improved understandability of the code intention [3], and reduced misinterpretation of the requirements specification [10]. Limitations associated with BDD include a steep learning curve, decreased team productivity, and challenges pertaining to a new way of working [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Mining reading patterns from eye-tracking data: method and demonstration

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Understanding how developers interact with different software artifacts when performing comprehension tasks has a potential to improve developers' productivity. In this paper, we propose a method to analyze eye-tracking data using process mining to find distinct reading patterns of how developers interacted with the different artifacts. To validate our approach, we conducted an exploratory study using eyetracking involving 11 participants. We applied our method to investigate how developers interact with different artifacts during domain and code understanding tasks. To contextualize the reading patterns and to better understand the perceived benefits and challenges participants associated with the different artifacts and their choice of reading patterns, we complemented the eye-tracking data with the data obtained from think aloud. The study used behavior driven development (BDD), a development practice that is increasingly used in Agile software development contexts, as a setting. The study shows that our method can be used to explore developers' behavior at an aggregated level and identify behavioral patterns at varying levels of granularity.

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Mining reading patterns from eye-tracking data: method and demonstration

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“…(1) combining BDD with Scrum can substantially improve communication, and (2) ontologies can eliminate natural language ambiguities. We validated hypothesis (1) in [6] with a case study using EAMS-CBALM, by proposing a ubiquitous language to define BDD scenarios and acceptance tests, allowing the PO to properly communicate with the development team members. This paper focuses on hypothesis (2), by employing domain ontologies as ubiquitous language for software development, and it is further structured as follows: Sect.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Using these specifications, the developers defined system behaviour scenarios and implemented screen pages, which were discussed at the next meeting. 109 hours have been spent with these meetings, in which the CBALM teachinglearning process was scrutinised, resulting in the definition of the functional and non-functional system requirements, and system architecture [6].…”

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Improving Agile Software Development with Domain Ontologies

Souza

Prado

Souza

et al. 2018

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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In this paper we propose to apply domain ontologies in agile software development to reduce the ambiguity caused by using natural language as ubiquitous language to report user stories. To justify and demonstrate our approach, we present a case study that combines Scrum and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) in the development of an educational support system, which was built to support the activities of the Medicine Programme of Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil. Starting from a reference ontology for the Higher Education domain, we gradually specialized this ontology for this programme. Since we selected the Evaluation Management module of this system for our case study, we applied the Evaluation Process Ontology to that programme, and defined user stories to identify the feature set to be implemented. For evaluation and validation purposes, we assessed the quality of all ontologies used in this work according to structural and functional dimensions.

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“…Some of them are performance management oriented, such as [6]. Some approaches like [7], [11], [12] in addition to performance management incorporate more complex strategies that allow personal level adaptivity to some extent by introducing management of personal targets. However, all of them fail to introduce enough formalized Business Process Model which would be suitable enough for HE applications and would take into account some problems we discuss in the next paragraph.…”

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A System for Modelling of Processes for Data Accumulation and Synthesis in Higher Education

Totkov¹,

Gaftandzhieva²,

Pashev³

et al. 2020

TEM Journal

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The paper presents a proprietary software system for Modelling of Processes for Data Accumulation and Synthesis in Higher Education, which is designed and developed to overcome the lack of tools suitable enough for work-flows manipulation in the field of Higher Education (HE). The system allows modelling processes in the form of "workflows", accumulation, aggregation and synthesis of information e-resources in relevant digital repositories, virtualization of processes, dynamic visualization of processes and/or their elements, integration and synchronization of heterogeneous software systems working with the system. A special focus is set on processes related to Quality Evaluation.

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Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain

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Mining reading patterns from eye-tracking data: method and demonstration

Mining reading patterns from eye-tracking data: method and demonstration

Improving Agile Software Development with Domain Ontologies

A System for Modelling of Processes for Data Accumulation and Synthesis in Higher Education

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