Using Students as Subjects - an Empirical Evaluation
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Mikael Svahnberg, Aybüke Aurum, Claes Wohlin |
| Title: | Using Students as Subjects - an Empirical Evaluation |
| Conference name: | Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Pagination: | 288-290 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59593-971-5 |
| Publisher: | ACM |
| City: | Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| URI/DOI: | 10.1145/1414004.1414055 |
| ISI number: | 000266371500036 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Engineering - Dept. of Systems and Software Engineering (Sektionen för teknik – avd. för programvarusystem) School of Engineering S- 372 25 Ronneby +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tek.bth.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | Mikael.Svahnberg@bth.se, Claes.Wohlin@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | An important task in Requirements Engineering is to select which requirements that should go into a specific release of a system. This is a complex decision that requires balancing multiple perspectives against each other. In this article we investigate what students imagine is important to professionals in requirements selection. The reason for this is to understand whether the students are able to picture what industry professionals value, and whether the courses provided to them allow them to picture the state of industry practice. The results indicate that students have a good understanding of the way industry acts in the context of requirements selection, and students may work well as subjects in empirical studies in this area. |
| Subject: | Software Engineering\General |
| Keywords: | Education, requirements engineering, students, industry practice, empirical |
