Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Publication Title
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Abstract
Goal models have long been used in the literature to model and reason about stakeholders’ intentions. Prior work proposed several studies aimed at investigating what utility stakeholders derive from constructing and analyzing goal models. We designed and conducted an initial empirical study that explores the construction stage of goal modeling, asking whether stakeholders benefit from manually drawing their own model. We recruited eight qualified participants and asked each to create a goal model for a decision they were considering while talking out loud. Half of the participants in this study used BloomingLeaf, while the remaining participants drew goal models by hand. Using information gathered through an online pre-study questionnaire, we constructed a goal model for each participant. Participants’ compared our generated models with their manually created ones. We used open coding to find themes and categories for qualitative responses. Analysis was mixed on whether participants preferred their own model to the researcher generated one. The results of which have implications for future studies, as well as goal model adoption and automation.
Volume
2641
First Page
67
Last Page
72
ISSN
16130073
Rights
© The Authors
Recommended Citation
Cebula, Naomi; Diao, Lily; and Grubb, Alicia M., "A Preliminary Investigation of the Utility of Goal Model Construction" (2020). Computer Science: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/csc_facpubs/211
Comments
Peer reviewed accepted manuscript.