Title
Is There a Demand of Software Transparency?
Date Issued
20 September 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
York University
Publisher(s)
Association for Computing Machinery
Abstract
This paper uses data about bills proposed to the Brazilian Congress to better understand transparency demand. The legislative process starts with bills, proposed by members of congress, which after the discussion on both chambers, may become a law. Webcitizen, a software company, offers to the Brazilian public an internet based software system with which people can vote on bills. This software interface is a site named Votenaweb, which gathers votes and publicize the results. As such, it aims to show how citizens value the proposed bills. Our study identifies bills related to transparency by using non-functional requirements (hereafter, NFRs) of the Transparency Softgoal Interdependency Graph (hereafter, SIG). Based on these results, we argue that there is a real future demand for software transparency, as advocated by previous work on software transparency.
Start page
204
End page
213
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85055514280
Resource of which it is part
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
ISBN of the container
978-145035326-7
Conference
31st Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, SBES 2017
Sponsor(s)
This research has been partially supported by Brazilian Science without Borders, Capes, CNPQ and FAPERJ.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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