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- Asgari, Shadnaz, et al.
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Computing to Change the World for the Better: A Research-Focused Workshop for Women
- 2020
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Ingår i: Proc of Research on Equity & Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Women's underrepresentation in Computer Science (CS) can be attributed to various factors including lack of self-efficacy, role models, encouragement, awareness of the discipline and existing research pathways. In February 2019, we hosted a Google-sponsored research-focused workshop at California State University, Long Beach to raise female undergraduates' awareness and confidence in CS research pathways and careers. Forty-six students from several universities in Southern California participated in the workshop. Over the course of three days, students worked on research problems with clear real-world applications in teams led by faculty and assisted by graduate students. Additional sessions were held to inspire female undergraduates, increase their confidence and enrich their knowledge about research and graduate programs. In this paper, we report about our experience and the lessons we learned. We also present evidence of success in strengthening the research interests of our participants based on the results of the pre- and post-surveys that were designed and administered by the evaluators of our funding agency (Google Inc.) to better understand the impact of these workshops.
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- Carver, Jeffrey C., et al.
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Conference Highlights: JIT Fault Prevention, Motivated Modeling, Security in Requirements, and Improving Team Performance
- 2020
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 37:4, s. 83-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This issue's practitioners' Digest reports on papers from the 2018 International Conference on Mining Sof tware Repositories, the 2019 International Conference on Requirements Engineering, and the 2019 European Conference on Software Process Improvement. Feedback or suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices included in this article, please send me and the author(s) of the paper(s) a note about your experiences.
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- Duboc, Leticia, et al.
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Requirements engineering for sustainability: an awareness framework for designing software systems for a better tomorrow
- 2020
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Ingår i: Requirements Engineering. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0947-3602 .- 1432-010X. ; 25:4, s. 469-492
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Integrating novel software systems in our society, economy and environment can have far-reaching effects. As a result, software systems should be designed in such a way as to maintain or improve the sustainability of their intended socio-technical systems. However, a paradigm shift is required to raise awareness of software professionals on the potential sustainability effects of software systems. While Requirements Engineering is considered the key for driving this change, requirements engineers lack the knowledge, experience and methodological support for acting as facilitators for a broader discussion on sustainability effects. This paper presents a question-based framework for raising awareness of the potential effects of software systems on sustainability, as the first step towards enabling the required paradigm shift. An evaluation study of the framework was conducted with four groups of computer science students. The results of the study indicate that the framework is applicable to different types of systems and helps to facilitate discussions about the potential effects that software systems could have on sustainability.
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- Gustavsson, Johanna, et al.
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Blinded by Simplicity: Locating the Social Dimension in Software Development Process Literature
- 2020
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Ingår i: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. ; , s. 116-127
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The software development process is a complex human, intellectual and labor-intensive activity and human related factors have shown to be the most significant contributors to software system failures. Lacking the ability to identify or quantify these factors, software practitioners will not learn from the failures caused by them. Although, social factors give rise to high failure rates in software development projects they tend to be ignored. Business continues as usual. The inability for software engineers to attain a holistic and inclusive approach will leave the social dimension out and undermine the realization of a fully sustainable software development process. This paper builds on the master’s thesis with the same title completed in December 2019 at Stockholm University. The thesis demonstrates how research literature on software development processes addresses (or not) the social dimension of sustainability from a holistic point of view. The results indicate that the practice of dealing holistically with complexity including the social dimension is still underdeveloped. Further research is suggested regarding the development of adequate supporting tools, social skills, and managerial attitudes and behaviors.
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- Kienzle, J., et al.
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Toward model-driven sustainability evaluation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Communications of the ACM. - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 0001-0782 .- 1557-7317. ; 63:3, s. 80-91
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Exploring the vision of a model-based framework that may enable broader engagement with and informed decision making about sustainability issues.
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- Oyedeji, Shola, et al.
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Experiences from Applying the Karlskrona Manifesto Principles for Sustainability in Software System Design
- 2020
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems. - 1613-0073.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sustainability in software design is an evolving area that requires more practical guide on how software designers, developers and requirement engineers can elicit software sustain- ability requirements. The Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainabil- ity Design (KMSD) principles serve as a common ground to guide and support sustainability in software design. However, there is little research as of now showing how these KMSD principles are applied in software requirements elicitation and software design in general. This paper presents some of our evaluation of how these KMSD principles, the software sustaina- bility requirement template and software sustainability require- ment best practice template were applied in two case studies by stakeholders (requirement engineers, CTO and software develop- ers).
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981
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Leverage Points for Focus Flow and Communitas
- 2020
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Ingår i: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. ; , s. 267-274
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Society is running at a high pace, and with it the hamster wheel we sometimes perceive ourselves to be in. In more scientific terms, this is called cognitive overload in combination with artificial deadline pressure. There is a notion of overwhelm in combination with perceived time scarcity in terms of the cognitive load of individuals. However, if we as individuals are not living in a sustainable way, how can we attempt to create a sustainable world? This paper provides an autoethnography of the use of leverage points to reduce cognitive load for a computer worker, with insights from literature and self-experiments, as well as a discussion on what is needed for changes on a bigger scale. An understanding of how cognitive load and resilience can be addressed by choosing and using specific leverage points has the potential to increase individual sustainability and resilience, what can be called focus flow, as well as communitas (group flow).
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981
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When Does Design Help Thinking, and When Does Design Thinking Help?
- 2020
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 37:2, s. 6-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As I'm sitting in the audience of a software development day, where Johan Sanneblad (hiQ developer and business consultant) raves about the possibilities of ultrawideband (IEEE Standard for Information Technology, IEEE Standard 802.15.4a, 2007) and wireless personal area networks and the new chip that Apple put in their new iPhone, I realize that the focus on the technical perspective is really asking us to take a deeper look at the social implications of the technology we are designing. How can we design technology for people, together with people, considering impacts on other people? As often in the requirements corner, the answer includes taking multiple perspectives, a diverse set of stakeholders, ethical considerations, and creativity.
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981
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Where attention goes, energy flows : enhancing individual sustainability in software engineering
- 2020
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Ingår i: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 9781450375955
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Software engineers are plagued by the same troubles as many others in highly skilled jobs and digitized environments: Ever-expanding to-do lists, time to market pressure from management, deadline- driven development, continuous interruption during working tasks, and the juggle of balancing that with other areas of life (physical, mental and emotional health, family, household, finance, friends, hobbies and community service). These demands of life in combina- tion with a seemingly ever-increasing pace wear or burn out many people in the long run. Specifically, as software engineers, this also leads to decreased creativity and less efficiency in problem-solving. Generally offered solutions are reducing screen time and spending more time outdoors, both of which are hard to do within the work of a software engineer. On a meta level, if the developers of the systems that run most of our world do not develop individual sus- tainability with a balanced pace of life, that imbalance propagates into the systems we develop (similar to Conway’s Law). We argue that mindfulness practices like yoga poses (asanas), breathing prac- tices, and meditation exercises can help individually, and even more effectively in combination. In this exploratory paper, we discuss related work that explores the application of these mitigations in other application domains and propose a research agenda to explore their use within software engineering education and practice. Engaging with mindfulness practices in the context of software engineering promises to enhance creativity and cognitive problem- solving skills, leading to more efficiency and effectiveness during software development and increased individual sustainability. This, in turn, leads to better team spirit as well as increased economic profit, both in terms of maintaining human capital and customer contract deliverables.
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- Wagner, Stefan, et al.
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Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys
- 2020
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Ingår i: Lecture Notes in Informatics. - 1617-5468. ; P-310, s. 115-116
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- While researchers have been investigating the Requirements Engineering (RE) discipline with a plethora of empirical studies, attempts to systematically derive an empirical theory in context of the RE discipline have just recently been started. We aim at providing an empirical and externally valid foundation for a theory of RE practice, which helps software engineers establish effective and efficient RE processes in a problem-driven manner. We designed a survey instrument and an engineer-focused theory that has been conducted in 10 countries. We have a theory in the form of a set of propositions inferred from our experiences and available studies, as well as the results from our pilot study in Germany. We evaluate the propositions with bootstrapped confidence intervals and derive potential explanations for the propositions.
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