Communication is more than verbal: The role of clients' documents in requirement solicitation

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Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Abstract

Copyright 2014 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The software development process is a collaboration between developers, users experience experts, clients and other stakeholders. Several teams of Computer Science students developed citizen-science Android applications, working with scientists, the application clients and domain experts. We studied the applications' development and determined the progress and performance of the teams by interviewing team members, studying their emails records, and documents shared by the scientists. The results from usability tests were used to measure the performance of the teams in terms of software correctness and usability. Our results showed that communication between clients and developers during the software development process is more complex than verbal. The quality of the documents shared by the clients is important.

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Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

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