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Requirements Validation in the Information Systems Software Development: An Empirical Evaluation of Its Benefits for a Public Institution in Lima

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Under Peruvian legislation, all information technology offices belonging to public institutions must meet ISO/IEC 12207 and, in the case of small organizations the international standard series ISO/IEC 29110 could be a good strategy to comply with the legislation. In this context, ISO/IEC 29110-5-1-2 establishes to apply software validation to requirements as a relevant activity; but it is an unusual practice during the software development of information systems in Peru. In this study, we assess the benefits of software validation in the context of a public institution technical unit. For this purpose, a case study was performed and a quasi-experimental design was applied on a group of projects. The quality indicators defined increased their values as a consequence of process improvement based on software validation. As a conclusion, applying software validation to requirements is beneficial and contributes to increase project quality.

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Acknowledgments

This work is partially supported by Departamento de Ingeniería and the Grupo de Investigación y Desarrollo de Ingeniería de Software (GIDIS) from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

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  1. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Continental, Huancayo, Perú

    Luis Canchari

  2. Departamento de Ingeniería, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú

    Abraham Dávila

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  1. Unidad Zacatecas, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Jezreel Mejia

  2. Unidad Zacatecas, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A.C, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Mirna Muñoz

  3. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  4. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Informáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Jose A. Calvo-Manzano

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Canchari, L., Dávila, A. (2020). Requirements Validation in the Information Systems Software Development: An Empirical Evaluation of Its Benefits for a Public Institution in Lima. In: Mejia, J., Muñoz, M., Rocha, Á., A. Calvo-Manzano, J. (eds) Trends and Applications in Software Engineering. CIMPS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1071. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33547-2_3

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