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Validating a Software Engineering Framework Through Technical-Action-Research in Union with Case Studies

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Software Engineering is an up-to-date discipline in constant development. It is continuingly enriched with new proposals from both industry and academy. Adequate validation of these proposals is a must if their real value for Software Engineering is to be determined. This paper demonstrates how a Software Engineering framework was validated with the help of Technical-Action-Research and Case Study methods, which were applied in several life cycles during a validation process of three years. Integration of these methodologies resulted in a solid research method with continuous feedback on and placement of the artifact in a real context. Using Technical-Action-Research together with Case Studies allowed to achieve research objectives and to meet the needs and goals of the organizations involved in the validation process, which emphasizes this method’s advantages and usefulness for Software Engineering.

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This work has been funded by GEODAS-BC project (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and FEDER, TIN2012-37493-C03-01); GLOBALIA project (Consejería de Educación, Ciencia y Cultura (Junta de Comunidades de Castilla La Mancha) and FEDER, PEII11-0291-5274); SDGear project (TSI-100104-2014-4), framed under the ITEA 2 Call 7, and co-funded by “Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo (Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica 2013-2016) and FEDER”; the Graduate Science and Engineering Computing (UNAM) and CONACYT (México).

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  1. KUALI-KAANS Research Group, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

    Miguel Morales-Trujillo & Hanna Oktaba

  2. Alarcos Research Group, University of Castilla – La Mancha, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Mario Piattini

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    Slimane Hammoudi

  2. Macquarie University, Sydney, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland, Wroclaw, Poland

    Leszek Maciaszek

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  4. MODESTE/ESEO, Angers, France

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Morales-Trujillo, M., Oktaba, H., Piattini, M. (2015). Validating a Software Engineering Framework Through Technical-Action-Research in Union with Case Studies. In: Hammoudi, S., Maciaszek, L., Teniente, E., Camp, O., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 241. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29133-8_15

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