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Scenarios, shared understanding, and collaborative, multi-criteria decisions to improve software requirements.

le 9 novembre 2022

Pr. Alejandro Fernandez
Manufacture des Tabacs, bâtiment F (Salle MF105)
12h45-13h30
Manufacture des Tabacs
Abstract: Scenarios are well-known tools to describe a domain's situations, which later translate into requirements for software development. Scenarios have a light structure that heavily relies on narrative text. They seek to incorporate the perspectives of multiple stakeholders, and they do so using perspective-specific vocabularies. As a result, there may be alternative scenarios that capture a single phenomenon from various perspectives. They may differ in terminology, level of abstraction or granularity, and focus (what is captured and what is not). Alternative scenarios for a single phenomenon may even differ in the number and order of the relevant episodes, actors, and resources. To be useful as requirements, scenarios need to be unambiguous, correct, consistent, and complete (among other quality criteria). In conclusion, capturing scenarios implies guided collaboration among stakeholders to agree/negotiate what to record and the most appropriate vocabulary to do so. In this talk, I will provide an overview of an ongoing effort to combine a methodology to reach "shared understanding" in collaborative problem-solving with collaborative multi-criteria decision-making to produce high-quality scenarios. Moreover, the talk will also serve as an excuse to share and discuss with the audience the idea of "research mashups" to kick off collaboration among research teams.
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