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The goal of value-based software is to integrate value considerations into the full range of existing and emerging software engineering principles and practices. This primarily involves identifying the success-critical stakeholders of the system and their value preferences; reasoning about the tradeoffs and different aspects of the project and the product using stakeholder value considerations; and identifying a win-win equilibrium that satisfies all success-critical stakeholders’ primary value preferences.
The current (prototype) version of SimVBSE has been designed using the Sierra Mountainbikes (SMB) supply chain case study as presented in [Boehm and Jain 2005]. We used the SMB case study to design the initial prototype of SimVBSE to leverage on the familiarity our software engineering students had with the study through their coursework, and to be able to assess the game’s efficiency in explaining the concepts of VBSE as compared to providing relevant publications.
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