Authors:
Miguel Morales-Trujillo
1
;
Hanna Oktaba
1
and
Mario Piattini
2
Affiliations:
1
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
;
2
University of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
Keyword(s):
TAR, SEMAT, OMG, case studies, evidence-based, validation, software engineering
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Engineering
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
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.