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[Context] Defect Causal Analysis (DCA) represents an efficient practice to improve software processes. While knowledge on cause-effect relations is helpful to support DCA, collecting cause-effect data may require significant effort and time. [Goal] We propose and evaluate a new DCA approach that uses cross-company data to support the practical application of DCA. [Method] We collected cross-company...
Building a programme of education that reflects and keeps pace with industrial practice is difficult. We often hear of a skills shortage in the software industry, and the gap between what people are taught in university and the "real world". This paper is a case study showing how we have developed a programme at Imperial College London that bridges this gap, providing students with relevant...
Context: Open Source is getting more and more collaborative with industry. At the same time, modeling is today playing a crucial role in development of, e.g., safety critical software. Goal: However, there is a lack of research about the use of modeling in Open Source. Our goal is to shed some light into the motivation and benefits of the use of modeling and its use within project teams. Method: In...
Thorough and continuous architecting is the key to overall success in software engineering, and architecture evaluation is a crucial part of it. This tutorial presents a pragmatic architecture evaluation approach and insights gained from its application in more than 75 projects with industrial customers in the past decade. It presents context factors, empirical data, and example cases, as well as...
Taking Shenzhen Dafen Oil Painting Village as an example, this paper researched on the effect of convergence between creative industry park and tourism. By using ROST Content Mining 6 software which analyzed based on network text, this paper constructed a conceptual model on the developed effect of urban cultural and creative tourism, and then views the development situation of cultural and creative...
The technical debt metaphor acknowledges that software development teams sometimes accept compromises in a system in one dimension (for example, modularity) to meet an urgent demand in some other dimension (for example, a deadline), and that such compromises incur a "debt". If not properly managed the interest on this debt may continue to accrue, severely hampering system stability and quality...
One of the most critical activities in software product development is the decisional process that assigns features to subsequent releases under technical, resource, risk, and budget constraints. This decision-centric process is referred to as software release planning (SRP).This briefing will expose a state of the art on SRP. A survey of the most relevant approaches will be presented. Emphasis will...
The ability to replicate and reproduce scientific results has become an increasingly important topic for many academic disciplines. In computer science and, more specifically, software engineering, contributions of scientific work rely on developed algorithms, tools and prototypes, quantitative evaluations, and other computational analyses. Published code and data come with many undocumented assumptions,...
Over the past decade, major advancements in software development have occurred in the global context. Global software development (GSD) is an effective strategy, and many higher educational institutions have been offering GSD courses. These courses are usually organized together with another institution situated in a different location. However, conducting such a course with more than one institution...
We believe that software engineering should be taught in a hands-on way such as through a project-based capstone course where students apply the learned concepts in a real setting. However, such a teaching format can be challenging and time-consuming for instructors. In this paper we explain how we selected and introduced a set of metrics to improve the manageability of our large multi-project capstone...
The popular agile practice of continuous integration has become an essential part of the software development process in many companies, sometimes to the extent that delivery to customer is impossible without it. Due to this pivotal role it is an important field of research to better understand the practice: continuous integration system behavior, improvement identification and analysis of change...
Developing software with high code quality in a university environment is a challenge for instructors of software engineering capstone courses. Teaching students how to achieve quality and how to conduct code reviews in projects is often neglected, although it helps to improve maintainability. In this paper we describe an informal review technique: branch based code reviews. Developers realize requirements...
Parameterized unit testing, recent advances in unit testing, is a new methodology extending the previous industry practice based on traditional unit tests without parameters. A parameterized unit test (PUT) is simply a test method that takes parameters, calls the code under test, and states assertions. Parameterized unit testing allows the separation of two testing concerns or tasks: the specification...
The main aim of this paper is to explain the various types of testing techniques, methods and levels(functional, unit) which are being used by many Software industries. These software industries use these techniques to find faults or bugs in the final software created by them. Here the software testers are experts in the IT Industry who act like customers and review the software to check whether it...
Immutability analysis is important to software testing, verification and validation (V&V) because it can be used to identify independently testable functions without side-effects. Existing tools for immutability analysis are largely academic prototypes that have not been rigorously tested for accuracy or have not been maintained and are unable to analyze programs written in later versions of Java...
In the automotive industry, as the complexity of electronic control units (ECUs) increase, there is a need for the creation of models that facilitate early tests to ensure functionality, but there is little guidance on how to write these tests in order to achieve maximum coverage. Our prototype CANoe+, which builds on the CANoe and GraphWalker tools, was evaluated against CANoe with regard to coverage...
Collaboration between industry and academia in software testing leads to improvement and innovation in industry, and it is the basis for achieving transferable and empirically evaluated results. Thus, the aim of TAIC PART is to forge collaboration between industry and academia on the challenging and exciting problem of real-world software testing. The workshop is promoted by representatives of both...
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