A pilot study of comparative customer comprehension between extreme x-machine and uml models Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3474411, abstract = {Many design notations are used during software development to help the developers better understand the required system. However they are infrequently shown to clients, partly because developers believe that clients don't understand them. In this study we investigate the extent to which clients comprehend three types of diagram. Two popular UML diagrams (activity and use case) and Extreme X-Machines diagrams (a type of state diagram developed to support Extreme Programming) were shown to three clients for whom we had recently delivered the software that was represented. The clients were given some simple guidance on interpreting them and asked to evaluate how well they understood them. This pilot study found that all the diagrams studied seemed to be equally well understood, but further studies are required to evaluate their usefulness.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Thomson, Christopher and Holcome, Mike and Cowling, Tony and Simons, Tony and Michaelides, George}, booktitle = {ESEM '08: Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement}, citeulike-article-id = {3474411}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1414048}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1414004.1414048}, doi = {10.1145/1414004.1414048}, isbn = {978-1-59593-971-5}, keywords = {archive, observatory, uml, xxm}, location = {Kaiserslautern, Germany}, pages = {270--272}, posted-at = {2008-11-03 10:06:32}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A pilot study of comparative customer comprehension between extreme x-machine and uml models}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1414004.1414048}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3474411 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3474411 N2 - Many design notations are used during software development to help the developers better understand the required system. However they are infrequently shown to clients, partly because developers believe that clients don't understand them. In this study we investigate the extent to which clients comprehend three types of diagram. Two popular UML diagrams (activity and use case) and Extreme X-Machines diagrams (a type of state diagram developed to support Extreme Programming) were shown to three clients for whom we had recently delivered the software that was represented. The clients were given some simple guidance on interpreting them and asked to evaluate how well they understood them. This pilot study found that all the diagrams studied seemed to be equally well understood, but further studies are required to evaluate their usefulness. CY - Kaiserslautern, Germany SN - 978-1-59593-971-5 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 272 TI - A pilot study of comparative customer comprehension between extreme x-machine and uml models PB - ACM T2 - ESEM '08: Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement SP - 270 KW - archive KW - observatory KW - uml KW - xxm AU - Thomson, Christopher AU - Holcome, Mike AU - Cowling, Tony AU - Simons, Tony AU - Michaelides, George PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1414004.1414048 ER -