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Software engineering whispers: The effect of textual vs. graphical software design descriptions on software design communication

机译:软件工程耳语:文本与图形软件设计描述软件设计通信的效果

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Context Software engineering is a social and collaborative activity. Communicating and sharing knowledge between software developers requires much effort. Hence,the quality of communication plays an important role in influencing project success. To better understand the effect of communication on project success,more in-depth empirical studies investigating this phenomenon are needed. Objective We investigate the effect of using a graphical versus textual design description on co-located software design communication. Method Therefore,we conducted a family of experiments involving a mix of 240 software engineering students from four universities. We examined how different design representations (i.e.,graphical vs. textual) affect the ability to Explain,Understand,Recall,and Actively Communicate knowledge. Results We found that the graphical design description is better than the textual in promoting Active Discussion between developers and improving the Recall of design details. Furthermore,compared to its unaltered version,a well-organized and motivated textual design description-that is used for the same amount of time-enhances the recall of design details and increases the amount of active discussions at the cost of reducing the perceived quality of explaining.
机译:背景软件工程是社会和协作活动。在软件开发人员之间进行沟通和分享知识需要很多努力。因此,沟通质量在影响项目成功方面发挥着重要作用。为了更好地了解沟通对项目成功的影响,需要更深入的实证研究来调查这种现象。目的我们研究使用图形与文本设计描述对共同定位的软件设计通信的影响。因此,我们进行了一系列涉及来自四所大学的240名软件工程学生的一系列实验。我们检查了如何不同的设计表示(即图解与文本)影响解释,理解,召回和积极传达知识的能力。结果我们发现图形设计描述优于促进开发人员之间积极讨论和改进设计细节的召回方面的文本。此外,与其未改变版本相比,一个良好的组织和动机的文本设计描述 - 用于相同的时间 - 增强设计细节的回忆,并增加了降低感知质量的成本的积极讨论的量解释。

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