Influence of team roles in software measurement: A replicated experiment

This article presents a replicated experiment in which the convenience of using the Belbin Role Theory for the integration of work teams with the task of measuring the software is studied. The study was developed in an academic environment with first-year students of the software engineering career...

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Autores: RAUL ANTONIO AGUILAR VERA, JULIO CESAR DIAZ MENDOZA, JUAN PABLO UCAN PECH
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:México
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital Institucional de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:redi.uady.mx:123456789/4696
Acceso en línea:http://redi.uady.mx:8080/handle/123456789/4696
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/7
Belbin Roles
Experimentation in Software Engineering
Function Point Analysis
Software measurement
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Sumario:This article presents a replicated experiment in which the convenience of using the Belbin Role Theory for the integration of work teams with the task of measuring the software is studied. The study was developed in an academic environment with first-year students of the software engineering career and analyzes the differences between the metrics obtained with the Function Point Analysis Technique, by teams integrated with the Belbin Theory, and those obtained by teams integrated with students selected randomly. The results regarding the Function Points variable showed significant differences, its result contrasts with that obtained in the previous study, in which the general analysis of the FP did not show statistically significant differences. On the other hand, regarding the metric associated with the process, in this case, the time that the teams used to carry out the task, the results also contrast with the first experiment, since no statistically significant differences were found between the two types of team conformation (Belbin Teams and Traditional Teams). The contrasting results in both experiments motivate us to continue the comparative analysis between the treatments for the factor related to the conformation of work teams.