Persona Incorporation in Requirements Engineering

We are looking into (but not limited to):

1. How personas are currently used in the requirements engineering (RE) process
2. What is in personas
3. What are the characteristics of of helpful persona

Publications

• Karolita, D., MchIntosh, J.,  Kanij, T., Grundy, J., Obie, H.  Use of personas in Requirements Engineering: A systematic mapping study.  Information and Software  Technology Journal, October 2023.
• Karolita, D.; Grundy, J.; Kanij, T.; Obie, H. and McIntosh, J. (2023). What's in a Persona? A Preliminary Taxonomy from Persona Use in Requirements Engineering. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE; ISBN 978-989-758-647-7; ISSN 2184-4895, SciTePress, pages 39-51. DOI: 10.5220/0011708500003464
• Karolita, D.; Grundy, J.; Kanij, T.; Obie, H. and McIntosh, J. (2023). What should be in a persona for use in Requirements Engineering. Under review for the CCIS Series published by Springer

• Use of personas in requirements engineering summary
• Persona taxonomy summary

Project Lead

Devi Karolita (PhD candidate)

Project Team

Prof John Grundy, Dr Tanjila Kanij, Dr Jenny McIntosh, Dr Humphrey Obie

Figure 1: Overview of persona incorporation in RE

Figure 2: Project Overview

Figure 3: Systematic Mapping Study Process

Figure 4: Systematic Mapping Study Findings

Figure 5: Persona Curation Process

Figure 6: Preliminary Persona Taxonomy

Figure 7: Persona Dimensions

Figure 8: Strengths and weaknesses of each persona dimension

Figure 9: Preferred Persona Dimension