Using Threats to Validity to Replicate Experiments in Requirements Elicitation Software

Ingenieria y Universidad

Oscar Dieste Tubio¹  Dante Carrizo Moreno²  Marta López Fernández³ 

[1] Universidad Politécnica de Madrid;Universidad de Atacama;Xunta de Galicia

关键词: Requirements engineering;    requirements elicitation;    interviews;    experimentation;    experimental design;    meta-analysis;   

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

来源: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

【 摘 要 】

Interviews are the most frequently used elicitation methods in requirements engineering (RE); never theless, there are but few experimental research papers focused on such methods. Recently we have carried out experiments in order to analyze the effectiveness of structured and unstructured interviews. One of those papers has joined others in the field of information systems forming a basis for study. Although meta-analyzed studies seem similar in their design, a focus on threats to validity uncovers more differences than similarities. The analysis of such threats can be a tool for identifying moderator variables and understanding how to improve the design of future replications in order to create new evidence and improve the results of meta-analyses.This paper shows a procedure toachieve this.

【 授权许可】

CC BY