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Hidden or Formal Architects: Understanding Who Makes Architectural Decisions in Practice
Klara Borowa, Dominik Nowak, Mikołaj Nowak
Empirical research on software architecture sometimes focuses on individuals holding the formal title of software architect. However, not all companies have individuals hired in su…
How Software Engineering Research Overlooks Local Industry: A Smaller Economy Perspective
Klara Borowa, Andrzej Zalewski, Lech Madeyski
The software engineering researchers from countries with smaller economies, particularly non-English speaking ones, represent valuable minorities within the software engineering co…
The Influence of Cognitive Biases on Architectural Technical Debt
Klara Borowa, Andrzej Zalewski, Szymon Kijas
Cognitive biases exert a significant influence on human thinking and decision-making. In order to identify how they influence the occurrence of architectural technical debt, a seri…
What rationales drive architectural decisions? An empirical inquiry
Klara Borowa, Rafał Lewanczyk, Klaudia Stpiczyńska +2
Architectural decision-making is a crucial concern for researchers and practitioners alike. There is a rationale behind every architectural decision that motivates an architect to…
Debiasing architectural decision-making: a workshop-based training approach
Klara Borowa, Maria Jarek, Gabriela Mystkowska +2
Cognitive biases distort the process of rational decision-making, including architectural decision-making. So far, no method has been empirically proven to reduce the impact of cog…
Is knowledge the key? An experiment on debiasing architectural decision-making -- a pilot study
Klara Borowa, Robert Dwornik, Andrzej Zalewski
The impact of cognitive biases on architectural decision-making has been proven by previous research. In this work, we endeavour to create a debiasing treatment that would minimise…