A Case Study Evaluation of the Guideline-Supported QUPER Model for Elicitation of Quality Requirements
Paper in proceeding, 2015

For market-driven software product developing organizations operating on a competitive open market, it is important to plan the product's releases so that they can reach the market as early as possible with a competitive level of quality compared to its competitors' products. Hence, quality requirements can be seen as a key competitive advantage. The QUPER model was developed with the aim to support high-level decision-making in release planning of quality requirements. As a follow up on previous studies on QUPER, this study investigates: What are practitioners' views on the utilities of QUPER extended with guidelines including domain-specific examples? [Principal ideas/results] In the presented case study, a set of detailed guidelines of how to apply QUPER in practice, including how to handle cost dependencies between quality requirements, was evaluated at a case company in the mobile handset domain with 24 professionals using real quality requirements. The results point to the importance of having concrete guidelines combined with instructive examples from real practice, while it is not always obvious for a practitioner to transfer cost-dependency examples into the domains that are different from the example domain. The transferability of guidelines and examples to support methodology adoption is an interesting issue for further research.

QUPER

Release planning

Software engineering

Quality requirements

Empirical case study

Requirements engineering

Author

Richard Berntsson Svensson

University of Gothenburg

B. Regnell

Lund University

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 9013 230-246
978-3-319-16101-3 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-16101-3_15

ISBN

978-3-319-16101-3

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