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Methodological Harness in Agentic Software Engineering: An Empirical Study on Mining Software Repositories
Jessica Díaz, Jorge Pérez, Sergio Gil-Borrás
Context. Agentic software engineering requires mechanisms to coordinate and govern agents' work. The framework motivating this study proposes a methodological harness with eight me…
Spec-Driven Development for Agentic Software Engineering: Harnessing Human-Agent Teamwork
Jessica Diaz, Joaquin Gayoso, Andrea Cimminio +1
Context: Software engineering is moving from AI-assisted practices like vibe coding, in which assistants accelerate individual developers, towards Agentic Software Engineering (ASE…
Operationalizing Software Engineering Theories for Practical Validation
Isaque Alves, Fabio Kon, Jessica Diaz +1
Software Engineering often adapts theory-building frameworks from the social sciences to address socio-technical complexity. The key phases of the theory-building process are conce…
Applying Inter-rater Reliability and Agreement in Grounded Theory Studies in Software Engineering
Jessica Díaz, Jorge Pérez, Carolina Gallardo +1
In recent years, the qualitative research on empirical software engineering that applies Grounded Theory is increasing. Grounded Theory (GT) is a technique for developing theory in…
Reliability in Software Engineering Qualitative Research through Inter-Coder Agreement: A guide using Krippendorff's & Atlas.ti
Ángel González-Prieto, Jorge Perez, Jessica Diaz +1
In recent years, the research on empirical software engineering that uses qualitative data analysis (e.g., cases studies, interview surveys, and grounded theory studies) is increas…
Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering -- Enhancement of the Study Selection Process using Cohen's Kappa Statistic
Jorge Pérez, Jessica Díaz, Javier Garcia-Martin +1
Context: Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) rely on a rigorous and auditable methodology for minimizing biases and ensuring reliability. A common kind of bias arises when selecti…
Why are many businesses instilling a DevOps culture into their organization?
Jessica Diaz, Daniel López-Fernández, Jorge Perez +1
Context: DevOps can be defined as a cultural movement to improve and accelerate the delivery of business value by making the collaboration between development and operations effect…
DevOps in Practice -- A preliminary Analysis of two Multinational Companies
Jessica Díaz, Jorge E. Perez, Agustín Yague +2
DevOps is a cultural movement that aims the collaboration of all the stakeholders involved in the development, deployment and operation of soft-ware to deliver a quality product or…