Software patterns and requirements engineering activities in real-world settings: A systematic mapping study

Barros-Justo, José L.; Benitti, Fabiane Barreto Vavassori; Cravero, Ania

doi:10.1016/j.csi.2017.12.001

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“…There is a large research community working on improving software engineering through software reuse, however without good practices for ensuring the transfer into industry, the value of such research is low. Nonetheless, most of the literature about software reuse and their benefits do not report industrial applications [9][10][11][12]; many reported experiences were developed in academic environments, as pilot experiments, toy projects or theoretical proposals without empirical validation.…”

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What software reuse benefits have been transferred to the industry? A systematic mapping study

Barros-Justo

Pinciroli

Matalonga

et al. 2018

Information and Software Technology

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Context: The term software reuse was first used in 1968 at the NATO conference. Since then, work in the scientific literature have stated that the application of software reuse offers benefits such as increase in quality and productivity. Nonetheless, in spite of many publications reporting software reuse experiences, evidence that such benefits having reached industrial settings is scarce. Objective: To identify and classify the benefits transferred to real-world settings by the application of software reuse strategies. Method: We conducted a systematic mapping study (SMS). Our search strategies retrieved a set of 2,413 papers out of which 49 were selected as primary studies. We defined five facets to classify these studies: a) the type of benefit, b) the reuse process, c) the industry's domain, d) the type of reuse and e) the type of research reported. Results: Quality increase (28 papers) and Productivity increase (25 papers) were the two most mentioned benefits. Component-Based Development (CBD) was the most reported reuse strategy (41%), followed by Software Product Lines (SPL, 30%). The selected papers mentioned fourteen industrial domains, of which four stand out: aerospace and defense, telecommunications, electronics and IT services. The application of systematic reuse was reported in 78% of the papers. Regarding the research type, 50% use evaluation research as the investigation method. Finally, 13 papers (27%) reported validity threats for the research method applied. Conclusions: The literature analyzed presents a lack of empirical data, making it difficult to evaluate the effective transfer of benefits to the industry. This work did not find any relationship between the reported benefits and the reuse strategy applied by the industry or the industry domain. Although the most reported research method was industrial case studies (25 works), half of these works (12) did not report threats to validity.

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What software reuse benefits have been transferred to the industry? A systematic mapping study

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Pinciroli

Matalonga

et al. 2018

Information and Software Technology

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“…Other than requirements specification, activity in product lines can be reuse as well [15], [16]. The reuse effort at this stage helped to systematically estimate alternative options through reuse scenarios in evaluating and comparing effective support of the make/buy process.…”

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A Study on Reuse-based Requirements Engineering by Utilizing Knowledge Pattern

Ahmad¹,

Hashim²,

Asmai³

2020

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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Software development has become an essential part of many industries over the past decade. The use of software has become an essential element for the organization to support its operation and business. Some software has certain features in common, which allow its requirements to be used repetitively in the requirement engineering phase. This paper presents a study on knowledge patterns for reuse-based requirements engineering. Reuse-based requirements engineering is saving the effort to conduct the process and, at the same time maintaining the standard since reused requirements come with its properties as well. Software development is an iterative process itself and so does the knowledge it holds in every iteration. When analysts perform many iterations of elicitation processes, it is often the case that a significant amount of requirements is recurring and similar software system will likely benefit from them. This research adopted a literature review method to investigate and to present current studies on knowledge pattern for the purpose of reuse. Knowledge reuse by utilizing knowledge pattern is becoming a significant method in software requirements engineering as it safes the effort of developing requirements from scratch. The study found that a specific pattern is required to develop good requirements specification. A proposed prototype to deploy reuse-based requirements engineering is also presented and evaluated. Experts' judgment method is used for evaluation by adapting the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The results showed that reusing knowledge pattern expedites the requirements elicitation process and improves the requirements quality.

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“…Therefore, the industry has been in possession of this powerful technique for more than 30 years. However, it is still unknown what the advantages and the disadvantages (RQ1) are associated with the application of the Use Cases in real software development projects [35], that is, in industrial environments (RQ2) [36]. The answers to these questions will help practitioners make sound, evidence-based decisions to improve the performance of their development processes and the quality of the final products.…”

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The impact of Use Cases in real-world software development projects: A systematic mapping study

Barros-Justo

Benitti

Tiwari

2019

Computer Standards & Interfaces

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Context: There is abundant literature on the application of UML Use Cases. However, the impact that these applications have had on real projects (in industry) is not well known. It is necessary to know what the impact of the Use Cases really is, so that both, researchers and professionals can make the most pertinent decisions.Objective: To identify and classify the positive and negative impacts of using Use Cases in real-world settings. Method:We conducted a systematic mapping study. The search strategies retrieved a set of 4,431 papers out of which 47 were selected as primary studies. We defined four facets to classify these studies: 1) the positive impact (advantages), 2) the negative impact (disadvantages), 3) the industry's domain and 4) the type of research reported. Results:Our study identified eight categories of advantages related to the application of Use Cases. The most mentioned were estimation, analysis and automation. These advantages had a heterogeneous distribution along the years. On the other hand, the granularity of the scenarios described in the Use Cases, the lack of a standardized format for specifying requirements, and the lack of appropriate guidelines for analysing them were the most mentioned disadvantages. We identified a variety of industry domains, grouped into seven categories. As we can expect most of the papers report experiences in the Information Technology domain, followed by financials applications. Almost half the papers applied evaluation research, including an empirical validation. Only one third of the analysed papers reported threats to validity, the most mentioned being generalizability (38%). Conclusions:Use Cases have proven to be a useful tool in software development, particularly during the early stages. The positive effects far outweigh the few negative effects reported, although this may be due to the researchers' tendency of not reporting negative results.

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Software patterns and requirements engineering activities in real-world settings: A systematic mapping study

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What software reuse benefits have been transferred to the industry? A systematic mapping study

What software reuse benefits have been transferred to the industry? A systematic mapping study

A Study on Reuse-based Requirements Engineering by Utilizing Knowledge Pattern

The impact of Use Cases in real-world software development projects: A systematic mapping study

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