Title
Embedding stakeholder values in the requirements engineering process
Author
Harbers, M.
Detweiler, C.
Neerincx, M.A.
Contributor
Fricker, S.A. (editor)
Schneider, K. (editor)
Publication year
2015
Abstract
Software has become an integral part of our daily lives and should therefore account for human values such as trust, autonomy and privacy. Human values have received increased attention in the field of Requirements Engineering over the last few years, but existing work offers no systematic way to use elicited values in requirements engineering and evaluation processes. In earlier work we proposed the Value Story workshop, a domain-independent method that connects value elicitation techniques from the field of Human-Computer Interaction to the identification of user stories, a common requirements specification format in Requirements Engineering. This paper studies whether user stories obtained in a Value Story workshop 1) adequately account for values, and 2) are usable by developers. The results of an empirical evaluation show that values are significantly better incorporated in user stories obtained in a Value Story workshop than through user stories obtained in regular requirements elicitation workshops. The results also show that value-based user stories are deemed valuable to the end-user, but rated less well on their size, estimableness and testability. This paper concludes that the Value Story workshop is a promising method for embedding values in the Requirements Engineering process, but that value-based user stories need to be translated to use cases to make them suitable for planning and organizing implementation activities. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
Subject
Human & Operational Modelling
PCS - Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
TS - Technical Sciences
Informatics
Computer software selection and evaluation
Human computer interaction
Domain independents
Empirical evaluations
Integral part
Requirements elicitation
Requirements engineering process
Requirements specifications
Stakeholder values
Value elicitation techniques
Requirements engineering
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16101-3_23
TNO identifier
526099
Publisher
Springer Verlag
ISBN
9783319161006
ISSN
0302-9743
Source
21st International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2015; Essen; Germany; 23 March 2015 through 26 March 2015, 9013, 318-332
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Document type
conference paper