Learning to Specify Information Requirements: The Relationship between Application and Methodology

:The systems development process involves establishing the information requirements of an application and successively transforming those requirements into a computer-based model of the application. Attention is usually focused almost exclusively on the method of transformation, however, with little recognition of the role of the application. As a first step in examining the relevance of knowledge of the application to the systems development process, this study addresses whether there are synergistic effects of application and methodology knowledge in specifying information requirements. This was achieved via a repeated-measures protocol analysis study that manipulated both experience with the application and knowledge of the methodology. The results show that in learning to specify information requirements, novice analysts:

• 저널Journal of Management Information Systems · 10(2) · 177–201
• 토픽Software Engineering Techniques and Practices · Information Systems
• DOI10.1080/07421222.1993.11518005
• 저자Iris Vessey, Sue Conger