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- Liebel, Grischa, 1987, et al.
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Impact of the use of industrial modelling tools on modelling education
- 2016
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Ingår i: 29th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEEandT 2016; Dallas; United States; 5 April 2016 through 6 April 2016. - : IEEE. - 9781509007653 ; , s. 18-27
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- It has been stated that industrial-grade modelling tools are unsuitable for teaching modelling. We assume, however, that the experiences of the teachers and the students is strongly connected to the support available. In this paper, we present our experience with a university course on software modelling. In the first year of the course, we used a commercial modelling tool, in the second year the open-source alternative Papyrus. Our quantitative analysis shows that the industrial-grade modelling tools with all their complexity did not have a negative impact on the students' experience of modelling. We analyse why our experience differs from published accounts and conclude that the availability of a tool champion and tailored instruction material is key. From this, we derive lessons learned and give recommendations on how to successfully use industrial-strength modelling tools in the classroom.
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- Maro, Salome, 1987, et al.
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Capra: A Configurable and Extendable Traceability Management Tool
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2016. - 9781509041213 ; , s. 407-408
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Traceability is a known problem both in academia and industry. One of the main challenges is that there is no one solution that will solve traceability problems for everyone in industry. Traceability needs are dependent on the context of the organization and can differ from project to project in the same organization. To cater for this problem we have developed Capra, an open source, flexible, configurable and extendable traceability management tool. Capra can be tailored according to specific traceability needs of individual projects and organizations. © 2016 IEEE.
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- Maro, Salome, 1987, et al.
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Capra: A Configurable and Extendable Traceability Management Tool
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Requirements Engineering Conference. - : IEEE. - 2332-6441.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Traceability is a known problem both in academia and industry. One of the main challenges is that there is no one solution that will solve traceability problems for everyone in industry. Traceability needs are dependent on the context of the organization and can differ from project to project in the same organization. To cater for this problem we have developed Capra, an open source, flexible, configurable and extendable traceability management tool. Capra can be tailored according to specific traceability needs of individual projects and organizations.
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- Maro, Salome, 1987, et al.
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Traceability Maintenance: Factors and Guidelines
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2016). - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 1527-1366. - 9781450338455 ; , s. 414-425
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Traceability is an important concern for numerous software engineering activities. Establishing traceability links %that capture useful connections between software artefactsis a challenging and cost-intensive task, which is uneconomical without suitable strategies for maintaining high link quality. Current approaches to Traceability Management (TM), however, often make important assumptions and choices without ensuring that the consequences and implications for traceability maintenance are feasible and desirable in practice. In this paper, therefore, we identify a set of core factors that influence how the quality of traceability links can be maintained. For each factor, we discuss relevant challenges and provide guidelines on how best to ensure viable traceability maintenance in a practical TM approach. Our results are based on and supported by data collected from interviews conducted with: (i) 9 of our industrial and academic project partners to elicit project specific requirements, and (ii) 24 software development stakeholders from 15 industrial cases to provide a broader overview of the current state of the practice on traceability maintenance.To evaluate the feasibility of our guidelines, we investigate a set of existing TM solutions used in industry with respect to our guidelines.
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- Steghöfer, Jan-Philipp, 1983, et al.
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Teaching Agile : Addressing the conflict between project delivery and application of Agile methods
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering. - New York, NY, USA : IEEE Computer Society. - 0270-5257. - 9781450341615 - 9781450342056 ; , s. 303-312
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyses the changes we have made in teaching agile methodologies, practices, and principles in four courses in order to address a specific dilemma: students need to apply agile methods in order to learn them, but when complementing our courses with applied content, we face the problem that students perceive the learning and application of agile methods as less important than delivering a finished product at the end of the course. This causes students to not apply theoretical process knowledge and therefore to not develop necessary skills associated with working with defined processes in the industry. Concretely, we report on our experience with teaching Scrum with Lego, removing formal grading requirements on the delivered product, emphasising process application in post-mortem reports, and organisational changes to support the process during supervision. These changes are analysed in the context of student satisfaction, teacher observations, and achievements of learning outcomes. We also provide an overview of the lessons learnt to help guide the design of courses on agile methodologies.
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- Trei, Maria, et al.
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An ISO 26262 compliant design flow and tool for automotive multicore systems
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES). - Cham : Springer International Publishing.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The complex interactions between suppliers and OEMs as well as between suppliers in the automotive industry make it necessary to clearly define processes and models for the exchange of information between different companies. Especially when several suppliers are jointly working on the same product, reducing friction and adhering to common standards are a necessity. In addition, standards like AUTOSAR and ISO 26262 put additional requirements on the processes and tools. In this paper, we report on our efforts to standardise the design flow and the modelling environment for automotive suppliers. In particular, we analyse the existing design flows at the suppliers, as well as the current state of an advanced automotive modelling tool, the Amalthea platform. Furthermore, we analyse compliance of both the design flows and the platform with the ISO 26262 standard, identifying which aspects of the standard are already covered and which are currently missing. From this, we derive recommendations and a roadmap to achieve full coverage of the standard with the aim of providing a single integrated platform with an accompanying design methodology.
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- Wohlrab, Rebekka, 1991, et al.
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Collaborative Traceability Management: Challenges and Opportunities
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE' 16). - : IEEE. - 2332-6441. - 9781509041213
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Traceability and the management of tracing links are important for various reasons, including to manage knowledge about a complex software system, to monitor the progress of its development, and to prove that it is developed in accordance to regulations. However, maintaining tracing links and using them in a beneficial way proves to be challenging in practice. In this paper, we investigate traceability and its management as a collaboration problem. Based on 15 industrial cases and 24 semi-structured interviews we identify a) challenges in collaborative traceability management and b) how traceability management can be used to enable collaboration. Our findings show that main challenges are boundaries between organizations and tools, a lack of common goals and responsibilities, and the difficulty of collaboratively maintaining trace links. On the other hand, traceability can be an important facilitator for documentation and knowledge management.
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