Paper Info
Title
Adoption of the Focus Groups Technique in the Open Source Software Development Process.
Abstract
The growth in the number of non-developer open source software (OSS) application users has drawn attention to usability in the OSS community. OSS communities do not generally know how to apply usability techniques and are unclear about which techniques to use in each activity of the development process. The aim of our research is to determine the feasibility of applying the focus groups technique in the OSS ERMaster project. To do this, we participated as project volunteers. We used the case study research method to investigate technique application and OSS community participation. As a result, we identified adverse conditions that were an obstacle to the application of the original technique. We then adapted the technique to make it applicable in an OSS project. We can conclude that was not easy to recruit OSS users and developers to participate in technique application.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
HCI
Obstacle,Know-how,Computer science,Usability,Requirements engineering,Knowledge management,Multimedia,Open source software,Software development,Focus group,Open-source software development,Process management
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucrecia Llerena112.39
Nancy Rodriguez213.07
John W. Castro33510.47
Silvia Teresita Acuña47427.26