Documenting Relations Between Requirements and Design Decisions: A Case Study on Design Session Transcripts

Hesse, Tom-Michael; Paech, Barbara

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-30282-9_13

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“…RQ2: Rationale completeness describes the quality of the recovered rationale from chat messages. Rationale is distributed across different development artifacts, e.g., bug reports [36] and design session transcripts [21], and all of these sources could be used together to capture a more complete rationale of the software system. Rationale completeness occurs when for each documented decision, all the rationale elements justifying the decision are documented [8].…”

Section: A Research Questionsmentioning

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Rationale in Development Chat Messages: An Exploratory Study

Alkadhi

Lata

Guzmany

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

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Chat messages of development teams play an increasingly significant role in software development, having replaced emails in some cases. Chat messages contain information about discussed issues, considered alternatives and argumentation leading to the decisions made during software development. These elements, defined as rationale, are invaluable during software evolution for documenting and reusing development knowledge. Rationale is also essential for coping with changes and for effective maintenance of the software system. However, exploiting the rationale hidden in the chat messages is challenging due to the high volume of unstructured messages covering a wide range of topics. This work presents the results of an exploratory study examining the frequency of rationale in chat messages, the completeness of the available rationale and the potential of automatic techniques for rationale extraction. For this purpose, we apply content analysis and machine learning techniques on more than 8,700 chat messages from three software development projects. Our results show that chat messages are a rich source of rationale and that machine learning is a promising technique for detecting rationale and identifying different rationale elements.

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Section: A Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rationale in Development Chat Messages: An Exploratory Study

Alkadhi

Lata

Guzmany

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

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“…The authors further discussed the possible implications of their findings on the areas of training, education and technology. Hesse and Paech [164] provided insights through a study on discussion transcripts of two design sessions with professional software designers on how requirements could be enhanced with feedback from the design process, for instance by clarifying potential uncertainties with the stakeholders. This work compliments our work.…”

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“…This work compliments our work. In addition to the PQs we received from SAs, the decision-related knowledge created in the work by Hesse and Paech [164] could also contribute to creation of PQs.…”

Section: The Synergistic Relationship Between Requirements and Architmentioning

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Stimulating architectural thinking during requirements elicitation : an approach and tool support

Anish

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Grounded Architectures: Using Grounded Theory for the Design of Software Architectures

Gidey¹,

Marmsoler²,

Eckhardt³

2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Workshops (ICSAW)

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Documenting Relations Between Requirements and Design Decisions: A Case Study on Design Session Transcripts

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

Rationale in Development Chat Messages: An Exploratory Study

Rationale in Development Chat Messages: An Exploratory Study

Stimulating architectural thinking during requirements elicitation : an approach and tool support

Grounded Architectures: Using Grounded Theory for the Design of Software Architectures

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