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most citedA Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

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cs.SE2025★ 5 cited

Quality attributes of test cases and test suites -- importance & challenges from practitioners' perspectives

Huynh Khanh Vi Tran, Nauman bin Ali, Michael Unterkalmsteiner +2

Context: The quality of the test suites and the constituent test cases significantly impacts confidence in software testing. While research has identified several quality attribute…

cs.SE2025

Language Models to Support Multi-Label Classification of Industrial Data

Waleed Abdeen, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Krzysztof Wnuk +2

Multi-label requirements classification is a challenging task, especially when dealing with numerous classes at varying levels of abstraction. The difficulties increases when a lim…

cs.SE2024★ 9 cited

Use of Agile Practices in Start-ups

Eriks Klotins, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Panagiota Chatzipetrou +4

Context Software start-ups have shown their ability to develop and launch innovative software products and services. Small, motivated teams and uncertain project scope makes start-…

cs.SE2023★ 72 cited

A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

Eriks Klotins, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Panagiota Chatzipetrou +4

Context: Software start-ups are emerging as suppliers of innovation and software-intensive products. However, traditional software engineering practices are not evaluated in the co…

cs.SE2023★ 2 cited

Requirements' Characteristics: How do they Impact on Project Budget in a Systems Engineering Context?

Panagiota Chatzipetrou, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Tony Gorschek

Background: Requirements engineering is of a principal importance when starting a new project. However, the number of the requirements involved in a single project can reach up to…

cs.SE2023★ 19 cited

Exploration of technical debt in start-ups

Eriks Klotins, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Panagiota Chatzipetrou +4

Context: Software start-ups are young companies aiming to build and market software-intensive products fast with little resources. Aiming to accelerate time-to-market, start-ups of…

cs.SE2023

Exploring the Relationship Between Ownership and Contribution Alignment and Code Technical Debt

Ehsan Zabardast, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, Francis Palma +1

Software development organisations aim to stay effective and efficient amid growing system complexity. To address this, they often form small teams focused on separate components t…

cs.SE2021★ 36 cited

The State-of-Practice in Requirements Elicitation: An Extended Interview Study at 12 Companies

Cristina Palomares, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer +3

Context. Requirements engineering remains a discipline that is faced with a large number of challenges, including the implementation of a requirements elicitation process in indust…