Group support for technical review teams: an exploratory investigation

Author

Tyran, Craig K. ; George, Joey F. ; Nunamaker, J.F., Jr.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage. Inf. Syst., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

8-8 Jan. 1993

Firstpage

102

Abstract

Group technical reviews play an important role in the software development process and may potentially benefit from group support systems. An experimental study was performed to learn more about the group review task and the productivity of review teams so that the opportunities for group support could be better assessed. An experimental task involving the review of an analysis specification document was performed by 15 teams of college student subjects. Based on the study results, the experimental task was characterized as a complementary task composed of Eureka disjunctive subtasks. Process loss and gain were measured for the review teams. Potential sources for process loss and gain for review teams are discussed, along with the implications for group support.

Keywords

groupware; software tools; systems analysis; Eureka disjunctive subtasks; analysis specification document; group review task; group support systems; process gain; process loss; productivity; software development process; technical review teams; Collaborative software; Educational institutions; Error correction; Inspection; Management information systems; Medical services; Productivity; Programming; Software quality; Text analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1993, Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3230-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1993.284172

Filename

284172