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On Kubernetes-aided Federated Database Systems
Zheng Li, Nicolás Saldías-Vallejos, María Andrea Rodríguez +1
Cloud computing has made federated database systems (FDBS) significantly more practical to implement than in the past. As part of a recent Web-based Geographic Information System (…
Academic Search Engines: Constraints, Bugs, and Recommendation
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
Background: Academic search engines (i.e., digital libraries and indexers) play an increasingly important role in systematic reviews however these engines do not seem to effectivel…
Story-thinking, computational-thinking, programming and software engineering
Austen Rainer, Catherine Menon
Working with stories and working with computations require very different modes of thought. We call the first mode "story-thinking" and the second "computational-thinking". The aim…
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research
Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin
Context: Software practitioners are a primary provider of information for field studies in software engineering. Research typically recruits practitioners through some kind of samp…
Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles
Ashley Williams, Matthew Shardlow, Austen Rainer
Blogs are a source of grey literature which are widely adopted by software practitioners for disseminating opinion and experience. Analysing such articles can provide useful insigh…
Storytelling in human--centric software engineering research
Austen Rainer
BACKGROUND: Software engineering is a human activity. People naturally make sense of their activities and experience through storytelling. But storytelling does not appear to have…