Investigation of individual factors impacting the effectiveness of requirements inspections: a replicated experiment

Abstract

Cataloged from PDF version of article.This paper presents a replication of an empirical study regarding the impact of\ud individual factors on the effectiveness of requirements inspections. Experimental replications\ud are important for verifying results and investigating the generality of empirical studies.\ud We utilized the lab package and procedures from the original study, with some changes and\ud additions, to conduct the replication with 69 professional developers in three different\ud companies in Turkey. In general the results of the replication were consistent with those of\ud the original study. The main result from the original study, which is supported in the\ud replication, was that inspectors whose degree is in a field related to software engineering\ud are less effective during a requirements inspection than inspectors whose degrees are in other\ud fields. In addition, we found that Company, Experience, and English Proficiency impacted\ud inspection effectiveness

Effect of Domain Knowledge on Elicitation Effectiveness: An Internally Replicated Controlled Experiment

“…Several personal attributes may have a bearing on the effectiveness of any requirements-related task: experience [8], [4], [9], academic education [10], [11], cognitive capabilities [12] etc. One of the aspects that has been proposed to most influence an individual's effectiveness in requirements engineering activities is the knowledge of the problem domain [6], [13], [14], [15].…”

Using Eye Tracking to Investigate Reading Patterns and Learning Styles of Software Requirement Inspectors to Enhance Inspection Team Outcome

“…To that end, researchers have tried to understand the impact of individual factors on inspection performance by experimenting with educational background and level oftechnical degree [9,11]. However, empirical results at major software organizations showed that non-technical inspectors detected significantly larger number of faults recorded in NL requirements documents as compared to the people with higher technical degrees [2,9]. These results led us to hypothesize that inspector's ability to detect faults during inspection may be affected by the ways they perceive and process information known as Learning Styles (LS).…”

Estudio empírico de la influencia de la experiencia y del conocimiento del dominio del analista en la efectividad de la educción de requisitos

“…Existen diversas características personales que pueden influir en la efectividad de cualquier tarea relacionada con requisitos: la experiencia (Agarwal & Tanniru, 1990;Niknafs & Berry, 2012), formación académica (Albayrak & Carver, 2014;Carrizo, Dieste, & Juristo, 2014), capacidades cognitivas (Pitts & Browne, 2004), el conocimiento del dominio (Christel & Kang, 1992;Loucopoulos & Karakostas, 1995;Niknafs & Berry, 2012;Niknafs & Berry, 2013;Young, 2002;Zowghi & Coulin, 2005), entre otras.…”

“…Por ejemplo, uno de los pocos trabajos existentes es el estudio empírico acerca del efecto de la formación académica en la efectividad de la actividad de inspección de requisitos realizado por Carver, Nagappan y Page (2008) (así como su replicación posterior reportada en (Albayrak & Carver, 2014)). Los resultados de ambos estudios ponen de manifiesto un efecto negativo de la formación académica en la efectividad, esto es, los sujetos sin formación académica en informática resultaron más efectivos que los sujetos con formación.…”

“…Este resultado es consistente con el trabajo de , donde la formación académica es un factor que influye positiva y significativamente en la efectividad de educción de los sujetos, esto es, el grupo compuesto por sujetos con formación en ciencias de la computación son más efectivos. Por el contrario, en el área de inspección de requisitos, (Albayrak & Carver, 2014;Carver et al, 2008) los sujetos no informáticos son más efectivos en la inspección de requisitos.…”