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Help Me to Understand this Commit! - A Vision for Contextualized Code Reviews
Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Deepika Badampudi;Ricardo Britto;Nauman bin Ali
2024 IEEE/ACM First IDE Workshop (IDE)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
Background: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a key component for delivering high-quality software and sharing knowledge among developers. Effective reviews require an in-depth understanding of the code and demand from the reviewers to contextualize the change from different perspectives. Aim: While there is a plethora of research on solutions that support developers to understand changed code, we have ...Show More
On Developing an Artifact-Based Approach to Regulatory Requirements Engineering
Oleksandr Kosenkov;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Daniel Mendez;Davide Fucci;Tony Gorschek;Jannik Fischbach
2024 IEEE 32nd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
Context: Regulatory acts are a challenging source when eliciting, interpreting, and analyzing requirements. Requirements engineers often need to involve legal experts who, however, may often not be available. This raises the need for approaches to regulatory Requirements Engineering (RE) covering and integrating both legal and engineering perspectives. Problem: Regulatory RE approaches need to cap...Show More
Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities When Inferring Requirements From Regulations in the FinTech Sector - An Industrial Study
Parisa Elahidoost;Daniel Mendez;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Jannik Fischbach;Christian Feiler;Jonathan Streit
2024 IEEE 32nd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
[Context and motivation]: Understanding and interpreting regulatory norms and inferring software requirements from them is a critical step towards regulatory compliance, a matter of significant importance in various industrial sectors. [Question/ problem]: However, interpreting regulations still largely depends on individual legal expertise and experience within the respective domain, with little ...Show More
Measuring the Fitness-for-Purpose of Requirements: An initial Model of Activities and Attributes
Julian Frattini;Jannik Fischbach;Davide Fucci;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Daniel Mendez
2024 IEEE 32nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
Requirements engineering aims to fulfill a purpose, i.e., inform subsequent software development activities about stakeholders' needs and constraints that must be met by the system under development. The quality of requirements artifacts and processes is determined by how fit for this purpose they are, i.e., how they impact activities affected by them. However, research on requirements quality lac...Show More
Multi-Label Requirements Classification with Large Taxonomies
Waleed Abdeen;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Krzysztof Wnuk;Alexandros Chirtoglou;Christoph Schimanski;Heja Goli
2024 IEEE 32nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
Context and motivation: Classification aids software development activities by organizing requirements in classes for easier access and retrieval. The majority of requirements classification research has, so far, focused on binary or multi-class classification. Question/problem: Multi-label classification with large taxonomies could aid requirements traceability but is prohibitively costly with su...Show More
Towards identifying and minimizing customer-facing documentation debt
2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt)
Year: 2023 | Conference Paper |
Background: Software documentation often struggles to catch up with the pace of software evolution. The lack of correct, complete, and up-to-date documentation results in an increasing number of documentation defects which could introduce delays in integrating software systems. In our previous study on a bug analysis tool called MultiDimEr, we provided evidence that documentation-related defects c...Show More
A Live Extensible Ontology of Quality Factors for Textual Requirements
Julian Frattini;Lloyd Montgomery;Jannik Fischbach;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Daniel Mendez;Davide Fucci
2022 IEEE 30th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
Year: 2022 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (12)
Quality factors like passive voice or sentence length are commonly used in research and practice to evaluate the quality of natural language requirements since they indicate defects in requirements artifacts that potentially propagate to later stages in the development life cycle. However, as a research community, we still lack a holistic perspective on quality factors. This inhibits not only a co...Show More
MultiDimEr : A Multi-Dimensional bug analyzEr
2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt)
Year: 2022 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
Background: Bugs and bug management consumes a significant amount of time and effort from software development organizations. A reduction in bugs can significantly improve the capacity for new feature development. Aims: We categorize and visualize dimensions of bug reports to identify accruing technical debt. This evidence can serve practitioners and decision makers not only as an argumentative ba...Show More
A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups
Eriks Klotins;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Panagiota Chatzipetrou;Tony Gorschek;Rafael Prikladnicki;Nirnaya Tripathi;Leandro Bento Pompermaier
Context: Software start-ups are emerging as suppliers of innovation and software-intensive products. However, traditional software engineering practices are not evaluated in the context, nor adopted to goals and challenges of start-ups. As a result, there is insufficient support for software engineering in the start-up context. Objective: We aim to collect data related to engineering goals, challe...Show More
Automatic Extraction of Cause-Effect-Relations from Requirements Artifacts
Julian Frattini;Maximilian Junker;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Daniel Mendez
2020 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
Background: The detection and extraction of causality from natural language sentences have shown great potential in various fields of application. The field of requirements engineering is eligible for multiple reasons: (1) requirements artifacts are primarily written in natural language, (2) causal sentences convey essential context about the subject of requirements, and (3) extracted and formaliz...Show More
TT-RecS: The Taxonomic Trace Recommender System
2020 IEEE Seventh International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
Traditional trace links are established directly between source and target artefacts. This requires that the target artefact exists when the trace is established. We introduce the concept of indirect trace links between a source artefact and a knowledge organization structure, e.g. a taxonomy. This allows the creation of links (we call them taxonomic traces) before target artefacts are created. To...Show More
Early Requirements Traceability with Domain-Specific Taxonomies - A Pilot Experiment
2020 IEEE 28th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
Background: Establishing traceability from requirements documents to downstream artifacts early can be beneficial as it allows engineers to reason about requirements quality (e.g. completeness, consistency, redundancy). However, creating such early traces is difficult if downstream artifacts do not exist yet. Objective: We propose to use domain-specific taxonomies to establish early traceability, ...Show More
Requirements’ Characteristics: How do they Impact on Project Budget in a Systems Engineering Context?
Panagiota Chatzipetrou;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Tony Gorschek
2019 45th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)
Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |
Background: Requirements engineering is of a principal importance when starting a new project. However, the number of the requirements involved in a single project can reach up to thousands. Controlling and assuring the quality of natural language requirements (NLRs), in these quantities, is challenging. Aims: In a field study, we investigated with the Swedish Transportation Agency (STA) to what e...Show More
Software start-up failures are often explained with poor business models, market issues, or insufficient funding. Inadequacies in software engineering could be a significant contributing factor to the high start-up failure rate and precede any marketing or business related challenges. We reveal three antipatterns associated with start-up progression phases.Show More
Exploration of Technical Debt in Start-ups
Eriks Klotins;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Panagiota Chatzipetrou;Tony Gorschek;Rafael Prikladnicki;Nirnaya Tripathi;Leandro Pompermaier
2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track (ICSE-SEIP)
Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |
Context: Software start-ups are young companies aiming to build and market software-intensive products fast with little resources. Aiming to accelerate time-to-market, start-ups often opt for ad-hoc engineering practices, make shortcuts in product engineering, and accumulate technical debt. Objective: In this paper we explore to what extent precedents, dimensions and outcomes associated with techn...Show More
Software start-ups are new companies aiming to launch an innovative product to mass markets fast with minimal resources. However, most start-ups fail before realizing their potential. Poor software engineering, among other factors, could be a significant contributor to the challenges that start-ups experience. Little is known about the engineering context in start-up companies. On the surface, sta...Show More
While in every organization corporate culture and history change over time, intentional efforts to identify performance problems are of particular interest when trying to understand the current state of an organization. The results of past improvement initiatives can shed light on the evolution of an organization and represent, with the advantage of perfect hindsight, a learning opportunity for fu...Show More
Which Requirements Artifact Quality Defects are Automatically Detectable? A Case Study
2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW)
Year: 2017 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
[Context:] The quality of requirements engineering artifacts, e.g. requirements specifications, is acknowledged to be an important success factor for projects. Therefore, many companies spend significant amounts of money to control the quality of their RE artifacts. To reduce spending and improve the RE artifact quality, methods were proposed that combine manual quality control, i.e. reviews, with...Show More
Is It Possible to Disregard Obsolete Requirements? An Initial Experiment on a Potentially New Bias in Software Effort Estimation
Lucas Gren;Richard Berntsson Svensson;Michael Unterkalmsteiner
2017 IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)
Year: 2017 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (4)
Effort estimation is a complex area in decision-making, and is influenced by a diversity of factors that could increase the estimation error. The effects on effort estimation accuracy of having obsolete requirements in specifications have not yet been studied. This study aims at filling that gap. A total of 150 students were asked to provide effort estimates for different amounts of requirements, ...Show More
Software Development in Startup Companies: The Greenfield Startup Model
Carmine Giardino;Nicolò Paternoster;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Tony Gorschek;Pekka Abrahamsson
Software startups are newly created companies with no operating history and oriented towards producing cutting-edge products. However, despite the increasing importance of startups in the economy, few scientific studies attempt to address software engineering issues, especially for early-stage startups. If anything, startups need engineering practices of the same level or better than those of larg...Show More
2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Testing (RET 2015)
Elizabeth Bjarnason;Mirko Morandini;Markus Borg;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Michael Felderer;Matthew Staats
2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
The RET (Requirements Engineering and Testing) workshop provides a meeting point for researchers and practitioners from the two separate fields of Requirements Engineering (RE) and Testing. The goal is to improve the connection and alignment of these two areas through an exchange of ideas, challenges, practices, experiences and results. The long term aim is to build a community and a body of knowl...Show More
What Do We Know about Software Development in Startups?
Carmine Giardino;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Nicolò Paternoster;Tony Gorschek;Pekka Abrahamsson
An impressive number of new startups are launched every day as a result of growing new markets, accessible technologies, and venture capital. New ventures such as Facebook, Supercell, Linkedin, Spotify, WhatsApp, and Dropbox, to name a few, are good examples of startups that evolved into successful businesses. However, despite many successful stories, the great majority of them fail prematurely. O...Show More
Improving Students With Rubric-Based Self-Assessment and Oral Feedback
Sebastian Barney;Mahvish Khurum;Kai Petersen;Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Ronald Jabangwe
IEEE Transactions on Education
Cited by: Papers (23)
Rubrics and oral feedback are approaches to help students improve performance and meet learning outcomes. However, their effect on the actual improvement achieved is inconclusive. This paper evaluates the effect of rubrics and oral feedback on student learning outcomes. An experiment was conducted in a software engineering course on requirements engineering, using the two approaches in course assi...Show More
Evaluation and Measurement of Software Process Improvement—A Systematic Literature Review
Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Tony Gorschek;A.K.M. Moinul Islam;Chow Kian Cheng;Rahadian Bayu Permadi;Robert Feldt
BACKGROUND—Software Process Improvement (SPI) is a systematic approach to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of a software development organization and to enhance software products. OBJECTIVE—This paper aims to identify and characterize evaluation strategies and measurements used to assess the impact of different SPI initiatives. METHOD—The systematic literature review includes 148 papers p...Show More
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