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Automated production systems are design-to-order, custom-built mechatronic systems that are intended to deliver automation capabilities to satisfy the stakeholder requirements in the manufacturing/production domain. Traceability has its research root in requirements engineering (RE) and is defined as "the ability to describe and follow the life of a requirement". Such descriptions and followings...
Software engineering code of ethics (SWECOE) is an area within software engineering that requires increasing research attention. SWECOE is acknowledged as an important area of practice that has a huge impact on how software affects our daily life. The degree of harm to the users as a result of using equipment with faulty software applications highly depends on the ability of software engineers to...
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,...
[Context/Motivation]: The strategy of an organization defines its long-term goals and develop plans to achieve these goals. Strategic planning is the activity of deciding how to allocate resources within the organization to satisfy its strategy. Strategic planning precedes more detailed requirements engineering activities that clarify the requirements for the software systems concerned by the strategic...
In requirements elicitation interviews, ambiguities identified by analysts can help to disclose the tacit knowledge of customers. Indeed, ambiguities might reveal implicit or hard to express information that needs to be elicited. The perception of ambiguity might depend on the subject who is acting as analyst, and different analysts might identify different ambiguities in the same interview. Based...
Software datasets play a crucial role in advancing automated software traceability research. They can be used by researchers in different ways to develop or validate new automated approaches. The diversity and quality of the datasets within a research community have a significant impact on the accuracy, generalizability, and reproducibility of the results and consequently on the usefulness and practicality...
As demands on new software increase, new approaches are needed to help developers ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for their offered service. In this paper we present a QoS modeling approach that complements and extends the standard microservice and component-based software engineering tools by giving the software engineer information on what Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) and quality constraints...
The use of agile methods in software engineering is a standard practice and user stories are established artefacts used for breaking complex system requirements into smaller subsets. However, user stories do not suffice for understanding the big picture of system requirements. While there are methods that try to solve this problem, they lack visual tool support and are too heavy for smaller projects...
Vagueness in software requirements documents can lead to several maintenance problems, especially when the customer and development team do not share the same language. Currently, companies rely on human translators to maintain communication and limit vagueness by translating the requirement documents by hand. In this paper, we describe two approaches that automatically identify vagueness in requirements...
Providing a correct, complete, and unambiguous requirements specification is still one of the biggest challenges in software engineering. In the case of safety-critical systems, this challenge is even greater, since misinterpretations can lead to catastrophic damages to humans and to the environment. Agile development proposes minimizing the challenges in requirements specifications through short...
We present the results of a survey of tool use in software modeling education conducted from December 2016 to March 2017. The survey was conducted among 150 professors who taught modeling in 30 countries from all regions of the world. Professors reported using 32 modeling tools. Top motivations for choosing tools are simplicity of learning and installing, as well as the tools being free and supporting...
Inefficient mobile software kills battery life. Yet, developers lack the tools necessary to detect and solve energy bugs in software. In addition, developers are usually tasked with the creation of software features and triaging existing bugs. This means that most developers do not have the time or resources to research, build, or employ energy debugging tools.We present a new method for predicting...
Gamification of software engineering tasks improve developer engagement, but has been limited to mechanisms such as points and badges. We believe that a tool that provides developers an interface analogous to computer games can represent the gamification of software engineering tasks more effectively via software visualization. We introduce CityVR – an interactive software visualization tool that...
A software project is typically completed as a result of a collective effort done by individuals of different personalities. Personality reflects differences among people in behaviour patterns, communication, cognition and emotion. It often impacts relationships and collaborative work, and software engineering teamwork is no exception. Some personalities are more likely to click while others to clash...
There is widening chasm between the ease of creating software and difficulty of "building security in". This paper reviews the approach, the findings and recent experiments from a seven-year effort to enable consistency across a large, diverse development organization and software portfolio via policies, guidance, automated tools and services. Experience shows that developing secure software...
Domain specific languages (DSLs) bring substantial increase in productivity and quality and thus look very appealing to software engineering practitioners. Because language workbenches can drastically reduce the cost of building and maintaining DSLs and associated tooling, they catch the attention of technical leads and project managers in the industry. Effective use of language engineering technologies...
Recent research studies indicate a gap in research regarding descriptive and diagnostic analytics across project management knowledge areas. As a result there is mismatch between the information needed by project managers for good decision making and what the current tools provide. This research study purports that a project management intelligence (PMInt) tool which is aimed at assisting project...
Change-based code review, e.g., in the form of pull requests, is the dominant style of code review in practice. An important option to improve review's efficiency is cognitive support for the reviewer. Nevertheless, review tools present the change parts under review sorted in alphabetical order of file path, thus leaving the effort of understanding the construction, connections, and logic of the changes...
Modern programming languages, such as Java and C#, typically provide features that handle exceptions. These features separate error-handling code from regular source code and aim to assist in the practice of software comprehension and maintenance. Having acknowledged the advantages of exception handling features, their misuse can still cause reliability degradation or even catastrophic software failures...
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