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Traditionally, domestic water pump assembly is often carried out manually using dedicated fixed systems. These are inflexible, have long manufacturing lead time and can lead to capital bottlenecks. One way of introducing flexibility is by incorporating robots. Background literature suggested that there has been limited work on the use of flexible robot-based assembly applications. But they all required...
A significant milestone is reached when the field of software vulnerability research matures to a point warranting related security patterns represented by intelligent data. A substantial research material of empirical findings, distinctive taxonomy, theoretical models, and a set of novel or adapted detection methods justify a unifying research map. The growth interest in software vulnerability is...
Many companies work with suppliers to increase flexibility, focus on their own core competencies and improve efficiency and cost along the supply chain. Working with suppliers and effectively integrating them to complex software supply chains is far from easy. Savings are much smaller and problems are more difficult to cure than with internal development. Obviously suppliers need to optimize both...
Context: Surveys constitute an valuable tool to capture a large-scale snapshot of the state of the practice. Apparently trivial to adopt, surveys hide, however, several pitfalls that might hinder rendering the result valid and, thus, useful. Goal: We aim at providing an overview of main pitfalls in software engineering surveys and report on practical ways to deal with them. Method: We build on the...
In today's software industry many business organizations are realizing that Software Development Outsourcing (SDO) is an imperative and strategic step for their system operation success. Many organizations have or are in the process of implementing such business transformation. This study is to investigate the status quo of strategic SDO in the software industry. To conduct this research, a mixed...
We conducted a qualitative study to investigate the main aspects related to the development and management of applications (or apps) for smart and mobile devices. Is investigation is composed of two main steps and its context is the so ware industry. In the rst step, we interviewed so ware managers with experience in the context of app development and management. Is part of our study can be intended...
DevOps and continuous development are getting popular in the software industry. Adopting these modern approaches in regulatory environments, such as medical device software, is not straightforward because of the demand for regulatory compliance. While DevOps relies on continuous deployment and integration, regulated environments require strict audits and approvals before releases. Therefore, the use...
With the development of globalization intensified, China's social and economic level continues to improve, cultural exchanges are also showing more and more prosperous scene. In this context, China's digital media industry is also the rapid development, especially in recent years, mobile phone technology constantly updated, the emergence of new media, have greatly promoted the mobile media industry...
It can be argued, that software development and game development share a number of features in their process models, such as the need to design, develop and test software functionalities. However, while the software engineering (SE) models work successfully supporting the software development, their practical application for game development is frequently unsuccessful. To understand this problem and...
Continuous and long-term collaboration between industry and academia is crucial to develop front-line research in context-dependent areas like software development where both practitioners and researchers are searched for data collection, analysis and results. Despite many mutual benefits, this collaboration is often challenging, not only due to different goals, but also because of different pace...
Employee performance appraisal is vital activity that contributes to the competitiveness of the organization in its business domain. The appraisal criteria often chosen are primarily in qualitative nature, though there can be instances that associate with matric. Latest methods of evaluating employees use rating scale; however, it is incapable of providing real time performance feedback, in particular...
Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) could be taken as a different expression of the overall transformation trend toward network softwarization which is deeply impacting and bringing Telecom and ICT Industry. These changes will have a broader impact on society, including aspects of regulation, policy, social impacts and new business model. A number of new stakeholders...
Researchers perform empirical studies in industry to gain qualitative insights into a real-world problem. However, common critics are the diversity and selection process of participants. To address these issues, we propose to improve the integration of question-answering systems into empirical study. In this paper, we i) describe approaches to conduct studies in such systems, ii) exemplify corresponding...
The amount of software in modern vehicles is constantly growing. However, the risk for functional and quality deficiencies increases simultaneously with size. This results in industry for example in inevitable and unexpected refactorings of software models, which is slowing down development processes in turn. In this industrial case study, we evaluate model growth predictors applied to foresee critical...
Agile, lean processes have become the de-facto way to operate in the domain of software intensive products. Methodologies such as the lean startup are reshaping the way new companies and even well-established enterprises seek new opportunities in their operations. In contrast, in research, little has changed during that time – organizations that fund research still expect a solid, linear research...
Allowing swift release cycles, Continuous Delivery has become popular in application software development and is starting to be applied in safety-critical domains such as the automotive industry. These domains require thorough analysis regarding safety constraints, which can be achieved by the execution of safety tests resulting from a safety analysis on the product. With continuous delivery in place,...
The traditional role of the teacher as holder of all wisdom has been put in question, at least in some circles, in the last few years. Changes brought on by Millennials, a new generation of students both eager to collaborate and restless, the ubiquitous overflow of information, the rise of agility, the proliferation of new teaching methodologies, and profound shifts in technology have generated alternatives...
The software engineering industry should be the laboratory of much, perhaps most, of the empirical software engineering research. Not only would this create a more realistic context and higher external validity of the empirical research, it would also ease the result transfer and make the results more convincing for the industry. Unfortunately, this is currently not the case. About 90% of software...
Getting companies involved in and committed to empirical research projects is a major challenge for many researchers. This paper discusses several cases of lessons learned about how to involve and get the commitment of companies in different types of empirical research projects. This paper will discuss the experiences of two very large consortium projects and one medium-size research project. In addition,...
The games industry is notorious for its intense work ethics with uncompensated overtime and weekends at the office, also known as crunch or crunch time. Since crunch time is so common within the industry, is it possible that the benefits of crunch time outweigh the disadvantages? By studying postmortems and conducting interviews with employees in the industry, we aim to characterise crunch time and...
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