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Exploring and Explaining Viewpoints Merging

Khatwani, Charu
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8018-2323
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin150479606259188

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2017, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering and Applied Science: Computer Science.
Compared to building a single requirements view, modeling stakeholder viewpoints and then merging them is shown to improve the understanding of the problem domain, but also very time-consuming. How has the situation changed? This work reports replication of a case study, where we take theoretical replication’s advantage to mitigate the original study design’s threat and to embrace an important evolving factor, namely automated tool support for producing i* models. Our replicate case study updates the prior results by showing the time saving enabled by the tool, and verifies the rich domain understandings gained through viewpoints-based modeling. In an attempt to explain why viewpoints, lead to richer domain understandings, we examine the role that traceability plays in building individual and team-wide requirements models. The results suggest that better traceability from the sources makes team-level requirements modeling more focused whereas the lack of traceability makes it less fruitful. Our work not only shifts the case study from an exploratory to an explanatory nature, but also proposes the integration of conflict-centric views into viewpoints merging to further improve the understanding about stakeholder requirements’ trade-offs.
Nan Niu, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Raj Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Carla Purdy, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
112 p.
Computer Science
Theoretical replication; Viewpoints; Model merging; Traceability; Case study; ScholarUC

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  • Khatwani, C. (2017). Exploring and Explaining Viewpoints Merging [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin150479606259188

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Khatwani, Charu. Exploring and Explaining Viewpoints Merging. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin150479606259188.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Khatwani, Charu. "Exploring and Explaining Viewpoints Merging." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin150479606259188

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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