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This half-day workshop will demonstrate the use of a lottery-based simulation to teach students how to run an agile project by practicing the routine of daily meetings, coordination by mutual adjustment and tracking and reporting of progress. The objective of the simulation is twofold: to teach students the process' mechanics and provide them with insights about the implications on performance and...
Since its founding in 1989, the Studio-based Master of Software Engineering (MSE) Program at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has been a trailblazer in advancing the practice of masters-level professional software engineering education. From its inception, the program was designed around a comprehensive development project, the Studio. The Studio provides students with a team-based, mentored, multi-semester...
Distributed Software Development course is a joint project-based course involving three universities, from Croatia, Sweden and Italy, running each year since 2003. Distributed student teams work on all phases of a complex software engineering project, solving several challenges of working in a global environment, thus obtaining a valuable experience for their future careers. The course is very well...
The main goal of the US Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) is to serve science gateways to achieve sustainability and growth. Science gateways allow science and engineering communities to access shared data, software, computing services, instruments, educational materials, and other resources specific to their disciplines. Thus, science gateways are a subgroup of scientific software and the...
A panel discussing the role of requirements engineering (RE) in agile software development is organized at the 25th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’17) taking place in Lisbon, Portugal during September 4-8, 2017. Agile software practices introduce important changes to traditional understandings about requirements, such as how much to elicit and model, in which form to document,...
Individual surgeons rely on residency programs as their main conduit for developing the necessary soft skills needed to succeed and excel in the operating room. One critical skill requiring subjective (qualitative) learning involves navigating through varying soft and hard tissues by hand, and, most importantly, understanding how medical instruments respond under these conditions. During residency,...
Crowdsourcing (CS) is a new model of software development inspired by contribution. Several companies are adopting CS in their projects to reduce costs and employ specialists. However, several gaps persist in the literature analyzing the management of such projects, the impact of participants and activities. Thus, we perform a systematic mapping (SM) in order to verify how CS software project management...
This experience paper presents how a globally distributed software engineering team was able to deliver usable software at the end of each takt, why this was important, and the benefits derived. We also describe the approach taken, the challenges faced and the steps to overcome them.
Context: Conducting a Grounded Theory study is rigorous, demanding, and challenging. Misperceptions exist within the software engineering community. Objective: The purpose of this paper is to describe one extended participant observation Grounded Theory study for aiding new empirical researchers wanting to run similar research studies. Method: Following Constructivist Grounded Theory, we conducted...
Formal approaches to software development have traditionally aimed at guaranteeing software correctness, through the use of notations, analysis mechanisms and other elements founded on solid mathematical grounds. Since the seminal works of Hoare, Floyd and others, formal methods have used logical notations to capture intended software behavior, and proposed techniques for reasoning about software...
Empirical studies in software engineering frequently rely on correlation data in an effort to demonstrate that a process or tool affects an important or meaningful outcome, with the ultimate goal of improving software engineering practice. But all students of statistics know that "correlation does not imply causation," and so causal conclusions (using traditional methods) from observational...
In this work, we introduce a Deep Neural Network model for automated software categorization. The model is ableto form high-level concepts from low-level code tokens andto distinguish important features such as API calls and identifiersin order to support software categorization. Our empirical evaluationshows that DNN outperformed other machine learning approacheswith 15.9–36.4% higher accuracy in...
App store reviews are currently the main source of information for analyzing different aspects of app development and evolution. However, app users' feedback do not only occur on the app store. In fact, a large quantity of posts about apps are made daily on social media. In this paper, we study how Twitter can provide complementary information to support mobile app development. By analysing a total...
When a group of like-minded individuals set out on an ambitious quest, they need a clear vision, well-defined goals, skills to overcome unforeseen problems, commitment, perseverance, momentum, and a sense of joint adventure to propel them through the challenges ahead. This was certainly the case for interstellar travelers in the novel ‘Aurora’ written by Kim Stanley Robinson. The story starts 160...
"Having Divided to Conquer We Must Reunite [to] Rule" [3]. Decomposition of problems and systems into smaller, more manageable units has been at the heart of software engineering practice for decades. "Separation of concerns" gives software engineers the conceptual and practical tools to focus their attention, and their tools, on the parts of the problem or solution to which they...
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