Assessing the Intuitiveness of Qualitative Contribution Relationships in Goal Models: An Exploratory Experiment

[Background]: Developing conceptual models is an integral part of the requirements engineering (RE) process. Goal models are requirements engineering conceptual models that allow diagrammatic representation of stakeholder intentions and how they affect each other. A specific goal modeling language c...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in2017 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) pp. 466 - 471
Main Authors Liaskos, Sotirios, Ronse, Alexis, Zhian, Mehrnaz
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2017
Subjects
Adaptation models
Computational modeling
Conceptual modeling
goal models
Instruments
model comprehension
Requirements engineering
Semantics
Videos
Visualization
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:[Background]: Developing conceptual models is an integral part of the requirements engineering (RE) process. Goal models are requirements engineering conceptual models that allow diagrammatic representation of stakeholder intentions and how they affect each other. A specific goal modeling language construct, the contribution of goal satisfaction of one goal to another, plays a central role in supporting decision problem exploration within goal models. We report on an experiment whose aim was to measure the user perception of the meaning of the aforementioned modeling construct. A set of contributions under different scenarios were given to experimental participants who were asked what they thought the effect of the contribution was. We found that participants are not always in agreement either within themselves or with the designers' intentions on the meaning of the language. The results call for possible adaptations to the way goal modeling languages are used.
DOI:10.1109/ESEM.2017.69