Use Case Authoring: Replicating the CREWS Guidelines Experiment
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چکیده
Use cases have become an important tool in software engineering. There has been much focus on the diagram notation but relatively little on use-case descriptions. As part of a welcome and important research project into the use of scenarios in requirements engineering, the CREWS team has proposed a set of guidelines for writing use-case descriptions. This paper describes the replication of a CREWS project experiment that suggests CREWS use-case authoring guidelines improve the completeness of use-case descriptions. Our results show that the CREWS guidelines do not necessarily improve the use-case descriptions, only that the subjects implemented varying numbers of guidelines in their use-case descriptions. Subjects in the control group implemented a significant percentage of the guidelines by "chance". To further justify our results, we also apply a different marking scheme to compare with the CREWS approach. The results from the alternative marking approach show that there was no significant difference between the qualities of the use-case descriptions across the various groups.
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