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A Replicated Experiment with Undergraduate Students to Evaluate the Applicability of a Use Case Precedence Diagram Based Approach in Software Projects

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Software Engineering, Business Continuity, and Education (ASEA 2011)

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The Use Case Precedence Diagram (UCPD) is a technique that addresses the problem of determining the construction sequence or prioritization of a software product from the developer’s perspective. This paper presents a replicated controlled experiment with undergraduate students. The results obtained from this experiment confirm the results obtained in previous studies with practitioners in which the proposed approach enables developers to define construction sequences more precisely than with other ad-hoc techniques. However, unlike previous studies with practitioners, qualitative evaluation of the UCPD based on the Method Adoption Model (MAM), where the intention to use a method is determined by the users’ perceptions, shows that the relationships defined by the MAM are not confirmed with the results obtained with undergraduate students.

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  1. Departamento de Ingeniería, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel, Lima, 32, Peru

    José Antonio Pow-Sang

  2. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Imbert & Ana María Moreno

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  1. Multimedia Engineering Department, Hannam University, 133 Ojeong-dong, Daeduk-gu, Daejeon, Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  2. The Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, 43210-1275, Columbus, OH, USA

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  3. Catholic University of Daegu, South Korea

    Haeng-kon Kim

  4. Dept. of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, 800, Doan-dong, Seo-gu, 302-729, Daejeon, Korea

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Pow-Sang, J.A., Imbert, R., Moreno, A.M. (2011). A Replicated Experiment with Undergraduate Students to Evaluate the Applicability of a Use Case Precedence Diagram Based Approach in Software Projects. In: Kim, Th., et al. Software Engineering, Business Continuity, and Education. ASEA 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27207-3_17

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