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One of the main challenges in teaching Software Engineering as an undergraduate course is making the need for software processes and documentation obvious. Armed with some knowledge of programming, students may feel inclined to skip any development phase not involving coding. This is most pronounced when dealing with the Requirements Engineering practices. In this paper, we describe a practical approach...
Engineering higher education increasingly produces data in the volume, variety, velocity, and need for veracity such that the output of the research is considered “Big Data”. While engineering faculty members do conceive of and direct the research producing this data, there may be gaps in faculty members' knowledge in training graduate and undergraduate research assistants in the management of Big...
We gained detailed empirical knowledge about rolespecific information needs that have to be satisfied in requirements documents in traditional software development processes. Motivated by the widespread use of agile development and existing challenges in industry regarding agile requirements engineering our current research aims at investigating whether agile teams could also benefit from results...
This brief paper reports on how healthcare providers negotiate stages of care and communication by using intuition. This focus shifts attention away from the product—patient records—and towards the process of medical communication. To support this claim, the paper presents preliminary findings from qualitative analysis of two individual ethnographic research projects with live-action clinical nursing...
This paper reports on an interview-based study of 18 authors of different chapters of the two-volume book "Architecture of Open-Source Applications". The main contributions are a synthesis of the process of authoring essay-style documents (ESDs) on software architecture, a series of observations on important factors that influence the content and presentation of architectural knowledge in...
Non-functional requirements (NFRs) are commonly distinguished from functional requirements by differentiating how the system shall do something in contrast to what the system shall do. This distinction is not only prevalent in research, but also influences how requirements are handled in practice. NFRs are usually documented separately from functional requirements, without quantitative measures, and...
This paper addresses the issues regarding retrieve, reuse and update of design information in context of customized products and adaptive design. Capturing and representing design rationale during the development process has been identified as an important factor to support design of product variants. The study explores the development process from identifying customer requirements to production preparation...
Regular courses offered in IT and engineering departments at universities around the world have been undergoing considerable advancements in terms of digitalisation. However, approaches to organizing face-to-face seminars, generally more informal in nature, are often less structured. Organizers of these kinds of non-mandatory and infrequent seminars face specific challenges; in particular pertaining...
In pre-literate societies, oral tradition is anchored in the landscape, linking it with its inhabitants. The first part of this paper details the documentation of a legend of the Abui community of Alor, Eastern Indonesia. It describes the relationship of the legend with landscape and its functions in the community. We recorded the first version of the legend of the Giant Snake Mon Mot in the community...
Prioritization, selection and minimization of test cases are well-known problems in software testing. Test case prioritization deals with the problem of ordering an existing set of test cases, typically with respect to the estimated likelihood of detecting faults. Test case selection addresses the problem of selecting a subset of an existing set of test cases, typically by discarding test cases that...
Large software companies need to support continuous and fast delivery of customer value both in the short and long term. However, this can be hindered if both evolution and maintenance of existing systems are hampered by Technical Debt. Although a lot of theoretical work on Technical Debt has been recently produced, its practical management lacks empirical studies. In this paper we investigate the...
With the widespread use of virtual teams in learning and work, more attention has been drawn to trust in the team. Risk, benefits, utility value, effort, power, and interest are six factors that influence individual trust development. We have conducted a case study to investigate trust development in global virtual teams with Chinese students. This research takes the perspective of individual trust...
Popularity of open source software (OSS) projects has spiked an interest in the requirements engineering (RE) practices of such communities that are starkly different from those in traditional software development projects. Past work has focused on characterizing the main differences between OSS and traditional forms of software RE. In this effort we focus on differences in RE activity in OSS. RE...
Many US hospitals are finding it extremely challenging to maintain their financial health as they are operating with consistently thinning margins. Administrative inefficiencies in Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) diminish cash flow, reducing crucial capital investments urgently needed to improve health outcomes. Whereas IS research increasingly focuses on the promises and challenges of clinical IT,...
Collaboration among governmental organizations has been regarded as essential for realizing benefits of e-government investments. Inter-organizational collaboration on e-government can take several forms and can produce varying types of political, organizational, and technological benefits. However, few if any studies have delved deeper into analysis of how chosen modes of collaboration might relate...
Prior research in the field of offshore platform project execution has mainly focused on early project phases and planning, as a means to increase project reliability for offshore installations. Later phases, however, as fabrication, transport and installation have not been given the same attention. Projects of this kind frequently suffer both large and small deviations and as projects progress deviations...
Institute of Higher Learning in Technologies (IHLTs) in India suffers from inadequacy of quality technical institutes and staff, which is tough to remove. Across the globe, knowledge retention is a challenge in technical institutes and knowledge is the main asset of organizations. Moreover, prevention of “knowledge loss” enables a technical institute in better knowledge transfer thereby providing...
This paper reports on collaborative work with an SME, developing a system for data acquisition in health care organisations, providing mobile data support. We briefly introduce the ICF and the ICD classification scheme from the WHO as a foundation for our mobile application. A two-staged usability evaluation in a very early stage of development allows us to integrate user-centred design in the mobile...
In previous work we showed in a systematic mapping study that there is no method to enhance user-developer communication (UDC) in the design and implementation phase of large-scale IT projects (LSI). We then defined the UDC-LSI method. It is substantial especially for newly designed methods to evaluate them within a real-world context. As it is difficult to find a company willing to apply an untested...
Creating documentation is a challenging task in software engineering and most techniques involve the laborious and sometimes tedious job of writing text. This paper explores an alternative to traditional text-based documentation, the screen-cast, which captures a developer's screen while they narrate how a program or software tool works. We conducted a study to investigate how developers produce and...
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