Validation driven software product development

验证驱动的软件产品开发

• 批准号: 478364-2014
• 负责人: Miller, James
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=599785
• 关键词: Validation; driven; software; product; development

Creating software products which only possess "useful" features is very demanding. Often, products have many features which are either rarely or never used. This obviously implies that the cost of production is inflated and the time to market is delayed. Answering the question "will this feature be used?" - can only be addressed by running experiments in conjunction with the customer base. Hence, software production methodologies need to be transformed into methodologies which are customer- and experiment-centric. Hence, we need mechanisms to recruit and maintain a customer base and methods of interactions with them (experiments) to retrieve essential data to learn about what they really want and which features will actually be successful in meeting their desires. This proposal attempts to design such a methodology, and subsequently use this methodology in a real world scenario - build a successful product with a Canadian software company.

创建只具有“有用”功能的软件产品是非常苛刻的。通常，产品有许多很少或从未使用的功能。这显然意味着生产成本被夸大，上市时间被推迟。询问“是否会使用此功能？“-只能通过与客户群一起进行实验来解决。因此，软件生产方法需要转变为以客户和实验为中心的方法。因此，我们需要建立招募和维护客户群的机制，以及与他们互动的方法（实验），以检索必要的数据，了解他们真正想要的是什么，以及哪些功能实际上会成功满足他们的愿望。本提案试图设计这样一种方法，并随后在一个真实的世界场景中使用这种方法-与加拿大软件公司一起构建一个成功的产品。