Using Technical-Action-Research to Validate a Framework for Authoring Software Engineering Methods
Miguel Ehécatl Morales-Trujillo, Hanna Oktaba, Mario G. Piattini · 2015
The validation of proposals has become a fundamental part of the creation of knowledge in Software Engineering. Initiatives like SEMAT have highlighted the need to base the correctness, usefulness and applicability of Software Engineering theories and practices on solid evidence. This paper presents the validation process used for KUALI-BEH, a proposal that became part of an OMG standard. The validation strategy applied was the result of integrating Technical-Action-Research and Case Study methods. After three years of work, we can conclude that TAR is a valuable research method, emphasizing that the main advantages of Technical-Action-Research are continuous feedback and the validation of an artifact, in this case KUALI-BEH, in a real context.