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Beware the Normative Fallacy
Christoph Becker
Behavioral research can provide important insights for SE practices. But in performing it, many studies of SE are committing a normative fallacy - they misappropriate normative and…
Critical Requirements Engineering in Practice
Leticia Duboc, Curtis McCord, Christoph Becker +1
The design of software systems inevitably enacts normative boundaries around the site of intervention. These boundaries are, in part, a reflection of the values, ethics, power, and…
Temporal Discounting in Software Engineering: A Replication Study
Fabian Fagerholm, Christoph Becker, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou +5
Background: Many decisions made in Software Engineering practices are intertemporal choices: trade-offs in time between closer options with potential short-term benefit and future…
Temporal Discounting in Technical Debt: How do Software Practitioners Discount the Future?
Christoph Becker, Fabian Fagerholm, Rahul Mohanani +1
Technical Debt management decisions always imply a trade-off among outcomes at different points in time. In such intertemporal choices, distant outcomes are often valued lower than…
Blueprint and Evaluation Instruments for a Course on Software Engineering for Sustainability
Birgit Penzenstadler, Stefanie Betz, Colin C. Venters +5
We report on a summer school course on Software Engineering for Sustainability (SE4S). We provide a detailed blueprint of the contents taught and its evaluation with the instrument…
A Systematic Literature Review on Intertemporal Choice in Software Engineering - Protocol and Results
Christoph Becker, Dawn Walker, Curtis McCord
When making choices in software projects, engineers and other stakeholders engage in decision making that involves uncertain future outcomes. Research in psychology, behavioral eco…