Design Exploration J. Michael Moore

Overview Issues Approach Analysis Tool Questions

The Importance of Requirements Requirements define and measure the success of a system Even when a program does “what” it is supposed to do it still does not meet user expectations Getting the “real requirements” is hard Issues

Communication Issues Communication problems often the cause of inadequate requirements Terminology / jargon mismatch between end users and software developers Communicating via an artifact can help Face-to-face communication preferred but not always possible Issues

Approach Overview Issues Analysis Tool Questions

Design Exploration Approach Allow probable end users to create mock-ups of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for a program and augment with textual descriptions Take advantage of the “Language of the GUI” Allow person to choose most comfortable mode of communication Approach

Processing GUI Construction and Textual Argumentation Stored Designs Analysis Tool Analysis Approach

DE Builder Approach

DE Builder Approach

Overview Issues Analysis Tool Questions

Dictionary Maintain each term used and pointers to where the term occurs A modified full text index Analysis

Design Components Widgets Groups of Widgets Windows Analysis

Spatial Parsing Vertical List Composite Vertical List

Similarity Represent design components with Term Vectors Compare design components’ text with cosine similarity. Analysis

Approach Overview Issues Analysis Tool Questions

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J. Michael Moore Questions