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- Title
- Design reasoning improves software design quality
- Author(s)
- Tang, Antony; Tran, Minh H.; Han, Jun; Van Vliet, Hans
- Abstract
- Making justifiable decisions is a critical aspect of software architecture design. However, there has been limited empirical research on the effects of design reasoning on the quality of software design. The goal of this work is to investigate if there is any quality improvement to software design when design reasoning is applied. We conducted an empirical study involving twenty designers, the designers were asked to design a user interface and their designs were scored and compared. The results showed that the test group that was equipped with design reasoning produced a higher quality design than the control group, especially for inexperienced designers.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
- Source
- Lecture notes in computer science: Quality of software architectures: models and architectures: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Quality of Software-Architectures (QoSA 2008), Karlsruhe, Germany, 14-17 October 2008, Vol. 5281, pp. 28-42
- Publication year
- 2008
- Keyword(s)
- Design reasoning; Software architecture design; Usability
- Publisher
- Springer
- ISSN
- 0302-9743 (series ISSN)
- ISBN
- 9783540878780
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87879-7_2
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
- Additional information
- This work is supported in part by the Australian Collaborative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology and the Swinburne University of Technology Visiting Professor Award Scheme 2008.
- Peer reviewed
