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Assessing m-Learning Adoption in Higher Education
Muasaad Alrasheedi, Luiz Fernando Capretz
New mobile platforms, connected seamlessly to the Internet via wireless access have become increasingly more powerful and have found usage in a diverse set of application areas, in…
The Unpopularity of the Software Tester Role among Software Practitioners: A Case Study
Yadira Lizama, Daniel Varona, Pradeep Waychal +1
As software systems are becoming more pervasive, they are also becoming more susceptible to failures, resulting in potentially lethal combinations. Software test-ing is critical to…
Work Design and Job Rotation in Software Engineering: Results from an Industrial Study
Ronnie Santos, Marian Teresa Baldassarre, Fabio Queda Bueno da Silva +3
Job rotation is a managerial practice to be applied in the organizational environment to reduce job monotony, boredom, and exhaustion resulting from job simplification, specializat…
Analyzing Popularity of Software Testing Careers in Canada
Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Sachin Narendra Pardeshi
Software testing is critical to prevent software failures. Therefore, research has been carried out in testing but that is largely limited to the process and technology dimensions…
Computer Games Are Serious Business and so is their Quality: Particularities of Software Testing in Game Development from the Perspective of Practitioners
Ronnie Santos, Cleyton Magalhaes, Luiz Fernando Capretz +3
Over the last several decades, computer games started to have a significant impact on society. However, although a computer game is a type of software, the process to conceptualize…
Determination of Critical Success Factors Affecting Mobile Learning: A Meta-Analysis Approach
Muasaad Alrasheedi, Luiz Fernando Capretz
With rapid technological advancements, mobile learning (m-Learning) offers incredible opportunities, especially in the area of higher education. However, while interest in this are…
Management's Perspective on Critical Success Factors Affecting Mobile Learning in Higher Education Institutions - An Empirical Study
Muasaad Alrasheedi, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Arif Raza
Mobile learning (m-Learning) is considered to be one of the fastest growing learning platforms. The immense interest in m-Learning is attributed to the incredible rate of growth of…
How Software Development Group Leaders Influence Team Members Behavior
Fabio Q. B. da Silva, Cleviton V. F. Monteiro, Igor Ebrahim dos Santos +1
Evidence in the literature from several business sectors shows that exploratory and exploitative innovation strategies are complementarily important for competitiveness. Our empiri…
Need for a Soft Dimension
Pradeep Waychal, Luiz Fernando Capretz
It is impossible to separate the human factors from software engineering expertise during software development, because software is developed by people and for people. The intangib…
A Pilot Case Study on Innovative Behaviour: Lessons Learned and Directions for Future Work
Cleviton Monteiro, Fabio Queda Bueno da Silva, Luiz Fernando Capretz
Context: A case study is a powerful research strategy for investigating complex social-technical and managerial phenomena in real life settings. However, when the phenomenon has no…
Trends in Students Media Usage
Gerd Gidion, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Michael Grosch +1
Trends in media usage by students can affect the way they learn. Students demand the use of technology, thus institutions and instructors should meet students requests. This paper…
Creation and Evaluation of Software Teams - A Social Approach
Surayne Torres, Yadenis Pinero, Pedro Pinero +1
This work discusses an important issue in the area of human resource management by proposing a novel model for creation and evaluation of software teams. The model consists of seve…
Applying CMM Towards an m-Learning Context
Muasaad Alrasheedi, Luiz Fernando Capretz
In the era of m-Learning, it is found that educational institutions have onus of incorporating the latest technological innovations that can be accepted and understood widely. Whil…
Influence of Personality Types in Software Tasks Choices
Luiz Fernando Capretz, Daniel Varona, Arif Raza
According to psychology, not everybody can excel at all kinds of tasks. Thus, chances of a successful outcome of software development increase if people with particular personality…
Empirical Investigation of Key Business Factors for Digital Game Performance
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
Game development is an interdisciplinary concept that embraces software engineering, business, management, and artistic disciplines. This research facilitates a better understandin…
A Systematic Literature Review of the Critical Factors for Success of Mobile Learning in Higher Education (University Students' Perspective)
Muasaad Alrasheedi, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Arif Raza
The phenomenon of the use of a mobile learning (m-Learning) platform in educational institutions is slowly gaining momentum. While this can be taken as an encouraging sign, the per…
How Students Use Media: A Comparison across Faculties
Gerd Gidion, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Ken N. Meadows +1
The pervasiveness of online information services has led to substantial changes in higher education including changes in faculty members teaching methods and students study habits.…
Media Usage Survey: Overall Comparison of Faculty and Students
Gerd Gidion, Michael Grosch, Luiz Fernando Capretz +1
Recent developments in the use of technologies in education have provided unique opportunities for teaching and learning. This paper describes the results of a survey conducted at…
Media Usage in Post-Secondary Education and Implications for Teaching and Learning
Gerd Gidion, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Ken Meadows +1
The Web 2.0 has permeated academic life. The use of online information services in post-secondary education has led to dramatic changes in faculty teaching methods as well as in th…
Instructor Perspectives of Mobile Learning Platform: An Empirical Study
Muasaad Alrasheedi, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Arif Raza
Mobile learning (mLearning) is the cutting-edge learning platform to really gain traction, driven mostly by the huge uptake in smartphones and their ever increasing uses within the…
A study of the interface usability issues of mobile learning applications for smart phones from the users perspective
Abdalha Ali, Muasaad Alrasheedi, Abdelkader Ouda +1
A conceptual framework for measuring the usability characteristics of mobile learning (m-Learning) application has been developed. Furthermore, a software prototype for smartphones…