Assessing multiview framework (MF) comprehensibility and efficiency: A replicated experiment

  • Authors:
  • Pasquale Ardimento;Maria Teresa Baldassarre;Danilo Caivano;Giuseppe Visaggio

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Universití di Bari-Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Universití di Bari-Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Universití di Bari-Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Universití di Bari-Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Information and Software Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Goal oriented quality models have become an important means for assessing and improving software quality. In previous papers, the authors have proposed an approach called multiview framework, for guiding quality managers in designing and managing a goal oriented quality model. This approach has been validated through a controlled experiment carried out with university students. In this paper, the authors discuss a replication of the controlled experiment, carried out with 28 university graduates attending a master degree course in an Italian university. Although research hypotheses are the same, context differs. In the replication, experimental subjects were more representative of practitioners, because their master degree course required project work with industrial partners. Using a cross-over experimental design we found that subjects using the multiview framework made significantly fiewer errors (p