Effect of personality type on structured tool comp

Authors: Narasimhaiah Gorla Ananth Chiravuri Peter Meso

Publish Date: 2012/07/12

Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 281-292

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Abstract

Accurate understanding of software requirements by end users and software developers is important to ensure a high quality software product While comprehension performance on systems analysis tools has been studied in the past there is little research that examined the influence of personality type of an individual on his/her performance This paper has two objectives First the research uncovers the relationships between personality types introvert/extrovert sensing/intuitive feeling/thinking and perceptive/judging and comprehension performance accuracy and speed of users/developers using the structured tools Decision Tables DT Nassi–Schneiderman Charts NS and Structured English SE Second it examines the tradeoffs between comprehension accuracy and speed for each personality type Using laboratory experiments we measured individual performance with the three structured tools We found that introverts and feeling personalities comprehended more accurately with DT thinking and intuitive personalities comprehended more accurately with NS and SE The comprehension accuracy increased with time more for SE than for DT and NS The results show the most suitable combinations of structured tools and personality types for high comprehension The results also provide guidelines to managers with tight project schedules such as structured tools that are easier/faster to understand and the matching personalities who can comprehend faster

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