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Digital Mentor: towards a conversational bot to identify hypotheses for software startups
Jorge Melegati, Xiaofeng Wang
Software startups develop innovative, software-intensive product and services. This context leads to uncertainty regarding the software they are building. Experimentation, a proces…
Keeping Fun Alive: an Experience Report on Running Online Coding Camps
Ilenia Fronza, Luis Corral, Xiaofeng Wang +1
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic prohibited radically the collocation and face-to-face interactions of participants in coding bootcamps and similar experiences, which are key…
Work-from-home and its implication for project management, resilience and innovation -- a global survey on software companies
Anh Nguyen-Duc, Dron Khanna, Des Greer +16
[Context] The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disruptive impact on how people work and collaborate across all global economic sectors, including the software business. While remote wor…
Case Survey Studies in Software Engineering Research
Jorge Melegati, Xiaofeng Wang
Background: Given the social aspects of Software Engineering (SE), in the last twenty years, researchers from the field started using research methods common in social sciences suc…
Product Innovation through Internal Startup in Large Software Companies: a Case Study
Henry Edison, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson
Product innovation is a risky activity, but when successful, it enables large software companies accrue high profits and leapfrog the competition. Internal startups have been promo…
The Essence Theory of Software Engineering - Large-Scale Classroom Experiences from 450+ Software Engineering BSc Students
Kai-Kristian Kemell, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Xiaofeng Wang +2
Software Engineering as an industry is highly diverse in terms of development methods and practices. Practitioners employ a myriad of methods and tend to further tailor them by e.g…