What's in a Persona? A Preliminary Taxonomy from Persona Use in Requirements Engineering

Devi Karolita, Devi Karolita, John Grundy, Tanjila Kanij, Humphrey Obie, Jennifer McIntosh

2023

Abstract

Personas have been widely used during requirements engineering-related tasks. However, the presentation, composition, level of details and other characteristics varies greatly by domain of use. To better understand these, we formed a curated set of nearly 100 personas from 41 academic papers and analysed their similarities and differences. We then used our analysis to formulate a preliminary taxonomy of personas used for Requirements Engineering-related tasks. We describe our key findings from our analysis with examples, our preliminary taxonomy, and discuss ways the taxonomy can be used and further improved.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

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 - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-647-7, SciTePress, pages 39-51. DOI: 10.5220/0011708500003464

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase23,
author={Devi Karolita and John Grundy and Tanjila Kanij and Humphrey Obie and Jennifer McIntosh},
title={What's in a Persona? A Preliminary Taxonomy from Persona Use in Requirements Engineering},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2023},
pages={39-51},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011708500003464},
isbn={978-989-758-647-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - What's in a Persona? A Preliminary Taxonomy from Persona Use in Requirements Engineering
SN - 978-989-758-647-7
AU - Karolita D.
AU - Grundy J.
AU - Kanij T.
AU - Obie H.
AU - McIntosh J.
PY - 2023
SP - 39
EP - 51
DO - 10.5220/0011708500003464
PB - SciTePress