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Requirements Volatility in Software Architecture Design: An Exploratory Case Study
Sanja Aaramaa, Sandun Dasanayake, Markku Oivo +2
Requirements volatility is a major issue in software (SW) development, causing problems such as project delays and cost overruns. Even though there is a considerable amount of rese…
6GSoft: Software for Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Matteo Esposito, Sami Hyrynsalmi +17
In the era of 6G, developing and managing software requires cutting-edge software engineering (SE) theories and practices tailored for such complexity across a vast number of conne…
Analyzing the concept of technical debt in the context of agile software development: A systematic literature review
Woubshet Nema Behutiye, Pilar Rodriguez, Markku Oivo +1
Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor that is used to communicate the consequences of poor software development practices to non-technical stakeholders. In recent years, it has gained…
Software Startups -- A Research Agenda
Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Pekka Abrahamsson, Xiaofeng Wang +24
Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited time frames and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models…
Concerns in Software Development: A Systematic Mapping Study
Sandun Dasanayake, Jouni Markkula, Markku Oivo
Context: Successfully addressing stakeholder concerns that are related to software system development and operation is crucial to achieving development goals. The importance of usi…
Towards optimal quality requirement documentation in agile software development: a multiple case study
Woubshet Behutiye, Pilar Rodríguez, Markku Oivo +3
Context-Agile software development (ASD) promotes minimal documentation and often prioritizes functional requirements over quality requirements (QRs). The minimal documentation emp…
Kuksa*: Self-Adaptive Microservices in Automotive Systems
Ahmad Banijamali, Pasi Kuvaja, Markku Oivo +1
In pervasive dynamic environments, vehicles connect to other objects to send operational data and receive updates so that vehicular applications can provide services to users on de…
A Family of Experiments on Test-Driven Development
Adrian Santos, Sira Vegas, Oscar Dieste +18
Context: Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile software development approach that has been widely claimed to improve software quality. However, the extent to which TDD improves…
Comparing the Results of Replications in Software Engineering
Adrian Santos, Sira Vegas, Markku Oivo +1
Context: It has been argued that software engineering replications are useful for verifying the results of previous experiments. However, it has not yet been agreed how to check wh…
Documentation of quality requirements in agile software development
Woubshet Behutiye, Pertti Seppanen, Pilar Rodriguez +1
Context: Quality requirements (QRs) have a significant role in the success of software projects. In agile software development (ASD), where working software is valued over comprehe…
A Procedure and Guidelines for Analyzing Groups of Software Engineering Replications
Adrian Santos, Sira Vegas, Markku Oivo +1
Context: Researchers from different groups and institutions are collaborating on building groups of experiments by means of replication (i.e., conducting groups of replications). D…
Management of quality requirements in agile and rapid software development: A systematic mapping study
Woubshet Behutiye, Pertti Karhapää, Lidia Lopez +6
Context:Quality requirements (QRs) describe the desired quality of software, and they play an important role in the success of software projects. In agile software development (ASD…
Kuksa: A Cloud-Native Architecture for Enabling Continuous Delivery in the Automotive Domain
Ahmad Banijamali, Pooyan Jamshidi, Pasi Kuvaja +1
Connecting vehicles to cloud platforms has enabled innovative business scenarios while raising new quality concerns, such as reliability and scalability, which must be addressed by…
Impact of requirements volatility on software architecture: How do software teams keep up with ever-changing requirements?
Sandun Dasanayake, Sanja Aaramaa, Jouni Markkula +1
Requirements volatility is a major issue in software development, causing problems such as higher defect density, project delays and cost overruns. Software architecture that guide…
Practical relevance of software engineering research: Synthesizing the community's voice
Vahid Garousi, Markus Borg, Markku Oivo
Software engineering (SE) research should be relevant to industrial practice. There have been regular discussions in the SE community on this issue since the 1980's, led by pioneer…
Improving Development Practices through Experimentation: an Industrial TDD Case
Adrian Santos, Jaroslav Spisak, Markku Oivo +1
Test-Driven Development (TDD), an agile development approach that enforces the construction of software systems by means of successive micro-iterative testing coding cycles, has be…
Software Process Measurement and Related Challenges in Agile Software Development: A Multiple Case Study
Prabhat Ram, Pilar Rodriguez, Markku Oivo
Existing scientific literature highlights the importance of metrics in Agile Software Development (ASD). Still, empirical investigation into metrics in ASD is scarce, particularly…
Test Prioritization in Continuous Integration Environments
Alireza Haghighatkhah, Mika Mäntylä, Markku Oivo +1
Two heuristics namely diversity-based (DBTP) and history-based test prioritization (HBTP) have been separately proposed in the literature. Yet, their combination has not been widel…
Test Case Prioritization Using Test Similarities
Alireza Haghighatkhah, Mika Mäntylä, Markku Oivo +1
A classical heuristic in software testing is to reward diversity, which implies that a higher priority must be assigned to test cases that differ the most from those already priori…
Does the performance of TDD hold across software companies and premises? A group of industrial experiments on TDD
Adrian Santos, Janne Jarvinen, Jari Partanen +2
Test-Driven Development (TDD) has been claimed to increase external software quality. However, the extent to which TDD increases external quality has been seldom studied in industr…
Moving Beyond the Mean: Analyzing Variance in Software Engineering Experiments
Adrian Santos, Markku Oivo, Natalia Juristo
Software Engineering (SE) experiments are traditionally analyzed with statistical tests (e.g., t-tests, ANOVAs, etc.) that assume equally spread data across treatments (i.e., the h…
Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys
Stefan Wagner, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Michael Felderer +20
Requirements Engineering (RE) has established itself as a software engineering discipline during the past decades. While researchers have been investigating the RE discipline with…
Non-functional Requirements Documentation in Agile Software Development: Challenges and Solution Proposal
Woubshet Behutiye, Pertti Karhapää, Dolors Costal +2
Non-functional requirements (NFRs) are determinant for the success of software projects. However,they are characterized as hard to define, and in agile software development(ASD), a…
Choreography in the embedded systems domain: A systematic literature review
Nebojša Taušan, Jouni Markkula, Pasi Kuvaja +1
Software companies that develop their products on a basis of service-oriented architecture (SOA) can expect various improvements as a result of choreography. Current choreography p…