Goswami, A., & Walia, G. S., & Padmanabhan, G., & McCourt, M. E. (2017, June), Improving the Requirements Inspection Abilities of Computer Science Students through Analysis of their Reading and Learning Styles  Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. 10.18260/1-2--28498

\bibitem{asee_peer_28498}
  Goswami, A., \& Walia, G. S., \& Padmanabhan, G., \& McCourt, M. E. (2017, June), \emph{Improving the Requirements Inspection Abilities of Computer Science Students through Analysis of their Reading and Learning Styles}
  Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.
  10.18260/1-2--28498

Anurag Goswami, Gursimran Singh Walia, Ganesh Padmanabhan, and Mark E McCourt.  "Improving the Requirements Inspection Abilities of Computer Science Students through Analysis of their Reading and Learning Styles".  2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2017.  https://peer.asee.org/28498 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_28498}
  Anurag Goswami, Gursimran Singh Walia, Ganesh Padmanabhan, and Mark E McCourt.
  "Improving the Requirements Inspection Abilities of Computer Science Students through Analysis of their Reading and Learning Styles".
  \emph{2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2017.
  https://peer.asee.org/28498 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Software Engineering (SE) students learn various concepts in academia that prepares them for working in software industry. To fulfil the demand of delivering quality software, industries focus on inspection technique, introduced by Fagan at IBM in 1976, for early detection and removal of faults that saves rework effort and cost. Due to the importance of inspections, academic institutions have begun training students on inspection technique. This helps them to understand the nature of faults made during development and help them avoid committing the same defects. Despite the importance of inspections as an effective verification technique, training students on becoming effective inspectors is especially hard because the background factors (education, experience, personalities) of inspectors do not impact their individual fault detection effectiveness. On that note, our prior results showed that students tend to perceive & process information presented in Natural Language (NL) requirements document in different ways and is known as Learning Styles (LS). To gain insights into the reading patterns of individual inspectors during the requirements inspection, this research utilizes the eye tracking concept along with the psychological research on LS to identify the reading pattern of students as they inspect NL requirements document. The paper reports results from an academic study where inspection data of thirty-nine students were used to understand how educator can improve their inspection training technique. First, LS of each student was collected and students were trained on fault-checklist based inspection technique with sample requirements to guide inspections. Next, each student inspected requirements document (with seeded faults) and reported faults. The results were handed back with seeded fault list to introspect which helps students to understand inspection technique. Next, each student performed inspection on a second document (with seeded faults) in an eye tracking laboratory settings. Each student read requirements document on a computer monitor and eye movements were recorded by an eye tracker sitting at the bottom of the monitor. The faults reported were checked for fault positives by one of the researchers to generate final fault list for each student. The eye movement data was utilized to visualize scanpaths (linear/random reading trend) of students with fixations (where eye movements are relatively stationary) on the document along with the fixations at fault region. The data was then analyzed to evaluate the reading patterns in general and with different LS preference. Results show that inspection performance is significantly affected by the fixations especially at the fault regions. Results also showed that students had higher degree of linear reading pattern than random jumps during inspection and LS preferences had varying eye movement factors that affected inspection performance. Results provided insights into the design and execution of inspection training program that could be utilized to train students to focus more at fault prone areas for improved inspection outcome. Results also provided insights into the specific sections of requirements document that demonstrated regressive fixations and how the improvement in the requirements organization can improve the readability of requirements which in turn would improve their inspection performance.
AU  - Anurag Goswami
AU  - Gursimran Singh Walia
AU  - Ganesh Padmanabhan
AU  - Mark E McCourt
CY  - Columbus, Ohio
DA  - 2017/06/24
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Improving the Requirements Inspection Abilities of Computer Science Students through Analysis of their Reading and Learning Styles
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/28498
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--28498
ER  -