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Reducing the risks of communication failures through software models

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Clarisse Sieckenius de SouzaAuthors Info & Claims

IHC '19: Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Article No.: 43, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/3357155.3358472

Published: 22 October 2019 Publication History

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In the development process, software models support communication among members of the development team. Communication failures caused by software models may generate inconsistencies in the system, impairing its quality. Aiming to reduce risks of communication failures through software models, researchers can use the Directives of Communicability (DCs). The DCs were created based on Semiotic Engineering Theory and Grice's Cooperative Principle to improve the quality of communication among software development team members through software models. The aim of this paper is to present an empirical study assessing the use of DCs in the production of three software models. The results indicated that the DCs achieved the intended potential to reduce communication failures of what software models meant to those who produced them. The DCs also contributed to the quality of artifacts produced by their consumers, given that communication failures through software models can cause inconsistencies.

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Lopes Damian ASieckenius de Souza CConte T(2021)Directives of Communicability for Software ArtifactsProceedings of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality10.1145/3493244.3493276(1-9)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3493244.3493276
Lopes AConte TSieckenius de Souza C(2020)Exploring the Directives of Communicability for Improving the Quality of Software ArtifactsProceedings of the XIX Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality10.1145/3439961.3439974(1-10)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3439961.3439974

Index Terms

Reducing the risks of communication failures through software models
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. System description languages
      1. Unified Modeling Language (UML)

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Lopes Damian ASieckenius de Souza CConte T(2021)Directives of Communicability for Software ArtifactsProceedings of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality10.1145/3493244.3493276(1-9)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3493244.3493276
Lopes AConte TSieckenius de Souza C(2020)Exploring the Directives of Communicability for Improving the Quality of Software ArtifactsProceedings of the XIX Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality10.1145/3439961.3439974(1-10)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3439961.3439974

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