5 papers
REConnect: Participatory RE for Social Sustainability
Daniela Damian, Bachan Ghimire, Ze Shi Li +1
Context: Software increasingly shapes daily life, making requirements engineering (RE) essential for ensuring systems contribute to community social sustainability. Yet automated e…
The Nature of Technical Debt in Research Software
Neil A. Ernst, Ahmed Musa Awon, Swapnil Hingmire +1
Research software (also called scientific software) is essential for advancing scientific endeavours. Research software encapsulates complex algorithms and domain-specific knowledg…
Objectifying the Subjective: Cognitive Biases in Topic Interpretations
Swapnil Hingmire, Ze Shi Li, Shiyu +4
Interpretation of topics is crucial for their downstream applications. State-of-the-art evaluation measures of topic quality such as coherence and word intrusion do not measure how…
Privacy Bills of Materials: A Transparent Privacy Information Inventory for Collaborative Privacy Notice Generation in Mobile App Development
Zhen Tao, Shidong Pan, Zhenchang Xing +5
Privacy regulations mandate that developers must provide authentic and comprehensive privacy notices, e.g., privacy policies or labels, to inform users of their apps' privacy pract…
Unveiling Inclusiveness-Related User Feedback in Mobile Applications
Nowshin Nawar Arony, Ze Shi Li, Daniela Damian +1
In an era of rapidly expanding software usage, catering to the diverse needs of users from various backgrounds has become a critical challenge. Inclusiveness, representing a core h…