A Visual Narrative Path from Switching to Resuming a Requirements Engineering Task
| Autor: | Guenther Ruhe, Noor Hammad, Jenny Le, Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, Alex Shymka |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Visual analytics Task switching Requirements engineering business.industry Computer science Process (engineering) 05 social sciences 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Task (project management) Visualization Software development process Software Engineering (cs.SE) Computer Science - Software Engineering Data visualization Human–computer interaction 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences business 050107 human factors |
| Zdroj: | RE |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1707.01921 |
| Popis: | Requirements Engineering (RE) is closely tied to other development activities and is at the heart and foundation of every software development process. This makes RE the most data and communication-intensive activity compared to other development tasks. The highly demanding communication makes task switching and interruptions inevitable in RE activities. While task switching often allows us to perform tasks effectively, it imposes a cognitive load and can be detrimental to the primary task, particularly in complex tasks as the ones typical for RE activities. Visualization mechanisms enhanced with analytical methods and interaction techniques help software developers obtain a better cognitive understanding of the complexity of RE decisions, leading to timelier and higher quality decisions. In this paper, we propose to apply interactive visual analytics techniques for managing requirements decisions from various perspectives, including stakeholders communication, RE task switching, and interruptions. We propose a new layered visualization framework that supports the analytical reasoning process of task switching. This framework consists of both data analysis and visualization layers. The visual layers offer interactive knowledge visualization components for managing task interruption decisions at different stages of an interruption (i.e. before, during, and after). The analytical layers provide narrative knowledge about the consequences of task switching decisions and help requirements engineers to recall their reasoning process and decisions upon resuming a task. Moreover, we surveyed 53 software developers to test our visual prototype and to explore more required features for the visual and analytical layers of our framework. Comment: 7 Pages, the 25th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE'17) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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