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Table 1 GQM template

From: Are the expected benefits of requirements reuse hampered by distance? An experiment

Goal

The goal is to empirically analyse the application of catalogue-based requirements reuse techniques to improve requirements specification in GSD environments

Question

Is the application of catalogue-based requirements reuse techniques affected by the proximity or distance of team members?

Metric

Effectiveness (accuracy of the result), productivity (ratio of outputs to inputs) and perceived difficulty (ease of use), speed (rate at which the techniques are applied), quality (relative standard of the result) and understanding (comprehension of the techniques)

Goal definition template

 Object of study

The objects under study are requirements reuse techniques

 Purpose

The purpose is to evaluate requirements specification techniques and team configurations, specifically as regards differences between co-located and distributed development

 Quality focus

The quality focus is the effectiveness, productivity and subjective perception of requirements reuse techniques

 Perspective

The perspective is the researcher’s point of view

 Context

The study is run using university students as subjects based on a defined assignment with a reusable i18n requirements catalogue. The study is conducted as a blocked subject-object study