Paper Info
Title
Building an Observatory of Course-of-Action in Software Engineering: Towards a Link between ISO/IEC Software Engineering Standards and a Reflective Practice.
Abstract
As a help to compete in an evolving market, small software companies may use an observatory of their course-of-action. The course of action considers the observable aspect of the actor's activity. Its analysis provides a description of actors' activity and it can express recommendations concerning both the individual situations and the collective situation. The observatory is an articulated set of data collecting methods supported with semantic wilds and a dedicated application. A case study, based on the activity of a team of 6 young software engineers, depicts some aspects of the building and the filling of the course-of-action observatory. As primary results of this work, we may think that observing and analyzing software engineer's activity help to reveal his/her theory-in-use - what governs engineers' behavior and tends to be tacit structures - That may help engineers to establish links between "Project Processes-in-use" and a simplified Process Reference Model and contribute to reduce the fit between a project-in-action and espoused SE standards.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-04133-4_16
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Course-of-action,theory-in-use,espoused theory,reflective practitioner,software engineering processes
Observatory,Personal software process,Reference model,Software design description,Software engineering,Software,Engineering,Software construction,Team software process,Social software engineering
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
42
1865-0929
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
François-Xavier Bru100.34
Gaëlle Frappin200.34
Ludovic Legrand340.90
Estéban Merrer400.34
Sylvain Piteau500.34
Guillaume Salou600.34
Philippe Saliou7344.22
V. Ribaud8398.79