{"title":"Investigating the Potential Impact of Values on Requirements and Software Engineering","authors":"A. Sutcliffe, P. Sawyer, W. Liu, N. Bencomo","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-SEIS52602.2021.00013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an investigation into value-based software engineering and proposes a comprehensive value taxonomy with interpretation of design feature implications. The value taxonomy is used to assess the design of Covid-19 symptom tracker applications, contrasting the UK's NHS phase 1 and 2 designs which adopted centralized, then decentralized, architectures. The value/ feature analysis is also applied to the King's/Zoe Covid app which does not detect proximity, instead relying on user self-reporting. Value analysis illuminated design choices but was insufficient to account for download acceptance of the apps. We argue that motivational cost-benefit analysis needs to complement a values-based approach.","PeriodicalId":441365,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS52602.2021.00013","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper describes an investigation into value-based software engineering and proposes a comprehensive value taxonomy with interpretation of design feature implications. The value taxonomy is used to assess the design of Covid-19 symptom tracker applications, contrasting the UK's NHS phase 1 and 2 designs which adopted centralized, then decentralized, architectures. The value/ feature analysis is also applied to the King's/Zoe Covid app which does not detect proximity, instead relying on user self-reporting. Value analysis illuminated design choices but was insufficient to account for download acceptance of the apps. We argue that motivational cost-benefit analysis needs to complement a values-based approach.