Communicating requirements for business: UML or problem frames?
We compared two prominent software development notations: Problem Frames and the UML, to establish which is more effective at conveying the problem domain and software requirements. The UML scored slightly higher in both the comprehension and perceived difficulty ratings, although the results varied...
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| Published in: | International Conference on Software Engineering 2008 Vol. 2008; no. 7 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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10.05.2008
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| ISBN: | 1605580201, 9781605580203 |
| ISSN: | 0270-5257 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | We compared two prominent software development notations: Problem Frames and the UML, to establish which is more effective at conveying the problem domain and software requirements. The UML scored slightly higher in both the comprehension and perceived difficulty ratings, although the results varied considerably between the different participants and problems. In general the business participants seemed to find the Problem Frames diagrams more difficult than those from an IT background; this was evident from both the scores and the feedback. |
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| Bibliography: | SourceType-Scholarly Journals-2 ObjectType-Feature-2 ObjectType-Conference Paper-1 content type line 23 SourceType-Conference Papers & Proceedings-1 ObjectType-Article-3 |
| ISBN: | 1605580201 9781605580203 |
| ISSN: | 0270-5257 |
| DOI: | 10.1145/1370811.1370815 |