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09/19/2023
Requirements Quality Research: a harmonized Theory, Evaluation, and Roadmap
High-quality requirements minimize the risk of propagating defects to la...
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06/28/2023
MLSMM: Machine Learning Security Maturity Model
Assessing the maturity of security practices during the development of M...
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04/20/2023
Replication and Verifiability in Requirements Engineering: the NLP for RE Case
[Context] Study replication is essential for theory building and empiric...
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04/10/2023
Let's Stop Building at the Feet of Giants: Recovering unavailable Requirements Quality Artifacts
Requirements quality literature abounds with publications presenting art...
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06/13/2022
A Live Extensible Ontology of Quality Factors for Textual Requirements
Quality factors like passive voice or sentence length are commonly used ...
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06/09/2022
When Traceability Goes Awry: an Industrial Experience Report
The concept of traceability between artifacts is considered an enabler f...
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01/14/2022
Cognition in Software Engineering: A Taxonomy and Survey of a Half-Century of Research
Cognition plays a fundamental role in most software engineering activiti...
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08/30/2021
Vision for an Artefact-based Approach to Regulatory Requirements Engineering
Background: Nowadays, regulatory requirements engineering (regulatory RE...
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08/27/2021
Towards a Methodology for Participant Selection in Software Engineering Experiments. A Vision of the Future
Background. Software Engineering (SE) researchers extensively perform ex...
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05/07/2021
Studying Test-Driven Development and its Retainment Over a Six-month Time Span
In this paper, we investigate the effect of TDD, as compared to a non-TD...
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04/06/2021
Using Voice and Biofeedback to Predict User Engagement during Requirements Interviews
Capturing users engagement is crucial for gathering feedback about the f...
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11/24/2020
A Family of Experiments on Test-Driven Development
Context: Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile software development ...
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09/03/2020
What Makes Agile Test Artifacts Useful? An Activity-Based Quality Model from a Practitioners' Perspective
Background: The artifacts used in Agile software testing and the reasons...
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08/28/2020
Researcher Bias in Software Engineering Experiments: a Qualitative Investigation
Researcher Bias (RB) occurs when researchers influence the results of an...
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07/20/2020
Why Research on Test-Driven Development is Inconclusive?
[Background] Recent investigations into the effects of Test-Driven Devel...
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04/16/2020
Results from a replicated experiment on the affective reactions of novice developers when applying test-driven development
Test-driven Development (TDD) is an incremental approach to software dev...
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01/24/2020
Recognizing Developers' Emotions while Programming
Developers experience a wide range of emotions during programming tasks,...
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07/29/2019
An Empirical Assessment on Affective Reactions of Novice Developers when Applying Test-Driven Development
We study whether and in which phase Test-Driven Development (TDD) influe...
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07/25/2019
Towards an Holistic Definition of Requirements Debt
When not appropriately managed, technical debt is considered to have neg...
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07/23/2019
On Using Machine Learning to Identify Knowledge in API Reference Documentation
Using API reference documentation like JavaDoc is an integral part of so...
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03/08/2019
A Replication Study on Code Comprehension and Expertise using Lightweight Biometric Sensors
Code comprehension has been recently investigated from physiological and...
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08/07/2018
Needs and Challenges for a Platform to Support Large-scale Requirements Engineering. A Multiple Case Study
Background: Requirement engineering is often considered a critical activ...
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07/11/2018
The Effect of Noise on Sofware Engineers' Performance
Background: Noise, defined as an unwanted sound, is one of the commonest...
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07/09/2018
A Longitudinal Cohort Study on the Retainment of Test-Driven Development
Background: Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an agile software developme...
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06/07/2018
A Simple NLP-based Approach to Support Onboarding and Retention in Open-Source Communities
Successful open source communities are constantly looking for members an...
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05/07/2018
Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance
We present a quasi-experiment to investigate whether, and to what extent...
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03/28/2018
A First Implementation of a Design Thinking Workshop During a Mobile App Development Project Course
Due to their characteristics, millennials prefer learning-by-doing and s...
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07/27/2017