by Paul Grünbacher, Michael Halling, Stefan Biffl, Hasan Kitapci, Barry W. Boehm
Abstract:
Many software projects fail because early life-cycle defects such as ill-defined requirements are not identified and removed. Therefore, quality assurance (QA) techniques for defect detection and prevention play an important role. The effectiveness and efficiency of QA approaches has been empirically evaluated. In this paper we discuss QA techniques optimized for requirements negotiations. In particular, we focus on negotiations using the EasyWinWin approach. We present (1) repeatable techniques for checking quality throughout negotiations as well as (2) role-oriented inspection techniques helping a project team to reduce unnecessary complexity and to mitigate risks stemming from defects in requirements negotiation results. We present the results of a thorough feasibility study we conducted to test our approach.
Reference:
Repeatable Quality Assurance Techniques for Requirements Negotiations (Paul Grünbacher, Michael Halling, Stefan Biffl, Hasan Kitapci, Barry W. Boehm), In Proceedings 36th Hawaii Int'l Conference on System Sciences, HICSS03, IEEE Computer Society, 2003.
Bibtex Entry:
@Conference{Gruenbacher2003a,
author = {Paul Grünbacher and Michael Halling and Stefan Biffl and Hasan Kitapci
and Barry W. Boehm},
title = {Repeatable Quality Assurance Techniques for Requirements Negotiations},
booktitle = {Proceedings 36th Hawaii Int'l Conference on System Sciences, HICSS03},
year = {2003},
pages = {23},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
abstract = {Many software projects fail because early life-cycle defects such
as ill-defined requirements are not identified and removed. Therefore,
quality assurance (QA) techniques for defect detection and prevention
play an important role. The effectiveness and efficiency of QA approaches
has been empirically evaluated. In this paper we discuss QA techniques
optimized for requirements negotiations. In particular, we focus
on negotiations using the EasyWinWin approach. We present (1) repeatable
techniques for checking quality throughout negotiations as well as
(2) role-oriented inspection techniques helping a project team to
reduce unnecessary complexity and to mitigate risks stemming from
defects in requirements negotiation results. We present the results
of a thorough feasibility study we conducted to test our approach.},
doi = {10.1109/HICSS.2003.1173672},
researchr = {http://researchr.org/publication/GrunbacherHBKB03}
}