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Recent years have witnessed a marked proliferation in the interest in and relevant literature pertaining to the practice of mindfulness. In light of this trend and the pervasive stress common among college populations, the present study examined the efficacy of an adapted mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention in fostering adjustment among first-year students. Sixty-two (N = 62) nonvolunteer...
What is the degree of completion of the current iteration? Are we on track? How accurate are estimates compared to actual effort? Software cockpits (software project control centers) provide systematic support for answering such questions. Therefore, like a cockpit in an aircraft, software cockpits integrate and visualize accurate and timely information from various data sources for operative and...
The information about which modules in a software system's future version are potentially defective is a valuable aid for quality managers and testers. Defect prediction promises to indicate these defect-prone modules. Constructing effective defect prediction models in an industrial setting involves the decision from what data source the defect predictors should be derived. In this paper we compare...
Practitioners report that experience plays an important role in effective software testing. We investigate the role of experience in a multiple case study about three successful projects conducted at Siemens Austria and document the state of practice in testing software systems. The studied projects were employed from the domains telecommunications, insurance and banking, as well as safety-critical...
In this paper we describe our experience from developing and testing a visual graphical user interface (GUI) editor for mobile and multimedia devices. Testing of the editor's highly interactive user interface is critical for its success, yet remains a challenge due to the specification of often intangible quality characteristics of the GUI and its proneness to change. The approach we provide is supporting...
As the world's leading supplier of metallurgical plants, Siemens VAI provides integrated and universally applicable continuous casting systems for the steel industry. The complexity of the process of casting liquid steel is supported by software products that enable high-quality steel casts and efficient plant performance. Over the last recent years Siemens VAI developed a flexible software product...
In this paper we observe and compare distributions of popular size metric values from the analysis of different software systems as well as from different consecutive versions of one software system. The typically heavy-tailed distributions are visualized and discussed with the help of Pareto diagrams. We found that the distributions remain remarkable stable over time, support the identification of...
Testing resources and time are usually limited, especially by schedules for market-driven products and in fast-paced software development projects. In this paper the author presents his PhD proposal about a framework to support rapid and informed decision-making for test management in the context of iterative and evolutionary development. The objective is to continually focus testing on the value...
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