Paper Info
Title
An Empirical Evaluation of the Requirements Engineering Tool for Socio-Technical Systems
Abstract
One of the major problems of requirements engineering is the lack of sufficient empirical evidence that evaluates the benefits of modelling tools for Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). In this paper, we report on the results of empirical study that compares the modelling effort and effectiveness of the novel software tool for modelling requirements of sociotechnical systems against modelling on paper. We have asked 8 persons who received 2 different treatments - modelling on software against modelling on paper to create 2 requirements models - goal and domain models - for 2 different case studies. The study finds that modelling effort with a software tool nearly equals to modelling effort on paper while modelling effectiveness with a tool is higher than modelling effectiveness on paper. The major limitation of this study is the use of students as participants and the use of small sample size. In the future work, we will conduct another empirical study with a large sample size of professionals that aims to increase the confidence in the results obtained from this empirical study.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/EmpiRE.2018.00012
2018 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Requirements, sociotechnical system, model driven engineering, tools
Unified Modeling Language,Systems engineering,Empirical evidence,Computer science,Requirements engineering,Software,Sociotechnical system,Empirical research,Domain model,Sample size determination
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2329-6348
978-1-5386-8360-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Msury Mahunnah141.52
Kuldar Taveter212022.01
Raimundas Matulevičius345944.97