TY - GEN
T1 - Investigating the Potential Impact of Values on Requirements and Software Engineering
AU - Sutcliffe, Alistair
AU - Sawyer, Pete
AU - Liu, Wei
AU - Bencomo, Nelly
N1 - Funding: This research was partially supported by EPSRC (EP/T017627/1) Twenty-20 Insight.
PY - 2021/5/7
Y1 - 2021/5/7
N2 - This paper describes an investigation into value-based software engineering and proposes a comprehensive value taxonomy with interpretation of design feature implications. The value taxonomy is used to assess the design of Covid-19 symptom tracker applications, contrasting the UK's NHS phase 1 and 2 designs which adopted centralized, then decentralized, architectures. The value/ feature analysis is also applied to the King's/Zoe Covid app which does not detect proximity, instead relying on user self-reporting. Value analysis illuminated design choices but was insufficient to account for download acceptance of the apps. We argue that motivational cost-benefit analysis needs to complement a values-based approach.
AB - This paper describes an investigation into value-based software engineering and proposes a comprehensive value taxonomy with interpretation of design feature implications. The value taxonomy is used to assess the design of Covid-19 symptom tracker applications, contrasting the UK's NHS phase 1 and 2 designs which adopted centralized, then decentralized, architectures. The value/ feature analysis is also applied to the King's/Zoe Covid app which does not detect proximity, instead relying on user self-reporting. Value analysis illuminated design choices but was insufficient to account for download acceptance of the apps. We argue that motivational cost-benefit analysis needs to complement a values-based approach.
KW - values
KW - design features
KW - technology acceptance
KW - motivation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112866468&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9402169
UR - https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2021
U2 - 10.1109/ICSE-SEIS52602.2021.00013
DO - 10.1109/ICSE-SEIS52602.2021.00013
M3 - Conference publication
AN - SCOPUS:85112866468
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 39
EP - 47
BT - Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering
PB - IEEE
T2 - 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society, ICSE-SEIS 2021
Y2 - 25 May 2021 through 28 May 2021
ER -