The influence of software design representation on the design communication of teams with diverse personalities
Paper in proceeding, 2022
Software is the main driver of added-value in many of the systems that surround us. While its complexity is increasing, so is the diversity of systems driven by software. To meet the challenges emerging from this combination, it is necessary to mobilize increasingly large and heterogeneous multidisciplinary teams, comprising software experts, as well as experts from various domains related to the systems driven by software. Hence, the quality of communication about software between stakeholders of different domains and with different personalities is becoming a key issue for successfully engineering software-intensive systems. The goal of this study, thus, is to investigate the effect of the representation of software design models on the communication of design decisions between stakeholders with diverse personality traits. As a result, this study finds that graphical representations of software design models are better than textual representations in enhancing the communication and increasing the productivity of stakeholders with diverse personalities.
software design
software engineering
human aspects
personality traits
communication
Author
Rodi Jolak
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering
University of Gothenburg
Maxime Savary-Leblanc
University of Lille
Manuela Dalibor
RWTH Aachen University
Juraj Vincur
Slovak University of Technology Bratislava
Regina Hebig
Software Engineering 1
University of Gothenburg
Xavier Le Pallec
University of Lille
Michel Chaudron
Eindhoven University of Technology
Sébastien Gérard
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Ivan Polasek
Comenius University in Bratislava
Andreas Wortmann
University of Stuttgart
Proceedings - 25th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 2022
255-265
9781450394666 (ISBN)
25th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 2022
Montreal, Canada,
Montreal, Canada,
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Software Engineering
Embedded Systems
Computer Science
DOI
10.1145/3550355.3552398