Grupo Alarcos · Conference paper · 2015
Using Technical-Action-Research to Validate a Framework for Authoring Software Engineering Methods
Miguel Morales Trujillo, Hanna Oktaba, Mario Piattini Velthuis
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.