Adaptive software-based Feedback Acquisition: A Persona-based design

  • Malik Almaliki
  • , Cornelius Ncube
  • , Raian Ali

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28 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Users' feedback is vital to improve software quality and it provides developers with a rich knowledge on how software meets users' requirements in practice. Feedback informs how software should adapt, or be adapted, at runtime and what evolutionary actions to take in the next release. However, studies have noted that accommodating the different preferences of users on how feedback should be requested is a complex task and requires a careful engineering process. This calls for an adaptive feedback acquisition mechanisms to cater for such variability. In this paper, we tackle this problem by employing the concept of Persona to aid software engineers understand the various users' behaviours and improve their ability to design feedback acquisition techniques more efficiently. We create a set of personas based on a mixture of qualitative and quantitative studies and propose PAFA, a Persona-based method for Adaptive Feedback Acquisition.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE RCIS 2015 - 9th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Proceedings
EditorsColette Rolland, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Pericles Loucopoulos, Cesar Gonzales-Perez
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages100-111
Number of pages12
EditionJune
ISBN (Electronic)9781467366304
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jun 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event9th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, IEEE RCIS 2015 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 13 May 201515 May 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science
NumberJune
Volume2015-June
ISSN (Print)2151-1349
ISSN (Electronic)2151-1357

Conference

Conference9th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, IEEE RCIS 2015
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period13/05/1515/05/15

Keywords

  • Persona
  • Requirement engineering
  • User Feedback

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