The Role of Domain Experience in Software Design

@article{citeulike:2713100, abstract = {A designer's expertise rests on the knowledge and skills which develop with experience in a domain. As a result, when a designer is designing an object in an unfamiliar domain he will not have the same knowledge and skills available to him as when he is designing an object in a familiar domain. In this paper we look at the software designer's underlying constellation of knowledge and skills, and at the way in which this constellation is dependent upon experience in a domain. What skills drop out, what skills, or interactions of skills come forward as experience with the domain changes? To answer the above question, we studied expert designers in experimentally created design contexts with which they were differentially familiar. In this paper we describe the knowledge and skills we found were central to each of the above contexts and discuss the functional utility of each. In addition to discussing the knowledge and skills we observed in expert designers, we will also compare novice and expert behavior.}, author = {Adelson, B. and Soloway, E. }, booktitle = {Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, citeulike-article-id = {2713100}, journal = {Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {design, domain-knowledge, software}, number = {11}, pages = {1351--1360}, posted-at = {2008-04-24 20:13:11}, priority = {4}, title = {The Role of Domain Experience in Software Design}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=1701951}, volume = {SE-11}, year = {1985} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2713100 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2713100 TI - The Role of Domain Experience in Software Design T2 - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on JF - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on VL - SE-11 IS - 11 SP - 1351 EP - 1360 N2 - A designer's expertise rests on the knowledge and skills which develop with experience in a domain. As a result, when a designer is designing an object in an unfamiliar domain he will not have the same knowledge and skills available to him as when he is designing an object in a familiar domain. In this paper we look at the software designer's underlying constellation of knowledge and skills, and at the way in which this constellation is dependent upon experience in a domain. What skills drop out, what skills, or interactions of skills come forward as experience with the domain changes? To answer the above question, we studied expert designers in experimentally created design contexts with which they were differentially familiar. In this paper we describe the knowledge and skills we found were central to each of the above contexts and discuss the functional utility of each. In addition to discussing the knowledge and skills we observed in expert designers, we will also compare novice and expert behavior. KW - design KW - domain-knowledge KW - software AU - Adelson, B AU - Soloway, E PY - 1985/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1701951 ER -