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The software artifacts developed in the early stages of the development process describe the proposed solutions for the software. For this reason, these artifacts are commonly used to support communication among members of the development team. Miscommunication through software artifacts occurs because practitioners typically focus on their modeling, without reflecting on how other software development team members interpret them. In this context, we proposed the Directives of Communicability (DCs) to support practitioners analyzing characteristics that affect the artifact’s content on communication via artifact. We conducted preliminary studies in a controlled environment with our proposal. However, we noticed that new studies are necessary to evaluate the DCs concerning practitioners’ perceptions before transferring them to the industry. In this paper, we present two studies performed aiming to transfer the DCs to the software industry. In the first study, we evaluated the practitioners’ perception about the DCs to the quality of a specific software artifact. In the second study, we evaluated the viability of the DCs in a software development team. The studies’ results indicated that DCs have the potential to support improvements in artifacts’ content for better communication via artifact. To facilitate the use of our proposal in the software industry, we created processes that support the adoption of DCs and a checklist for the application of each directive in the software artifacts. We noticed positive perceptions of practitioners about the use of DCs in software artifacts. We hope that our contribution support software development teams that use artifacts to improve this type of communication. |
