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- Duboc, Leticia, et al.
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Do we really know what we are building? Raising awareness of potential sustainability effects of software systems in requirements engineering
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering. - : IEEE COMPUTER SOC. - 2332-6441 .- 1090-705X. ; 2019-September, s. 6-16
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Konferensbidrag (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 the socio-technical system of their destination. 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 to driving this change, requirements engineers lack the knowledge, experience and methodological support for doing so. 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. A feasibility study of the framework was carried out with two groups of computer science students. The results of the study indicate that the framework helps enable discussions about potential effects that software systems could have on sustainability.
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- Fotrousi, Farnaz, et al.
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Ethical considerations in research on user feedback
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2017. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. - 9781538634882 ; , s. 194-198
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Collecting and using user feedback as a method to support requirements engineering, might undermine user rights. This becomes apparent when looking at related areas, e.g., research in user experience, where collecting user feedback also plays an important role. In such settings, researchers need to ensure that the stakeholders' rights and integrity are respected. This paper identifies and discusses some of the ethical challenges and issues a researcher can face, using an example case. Focusing on user feedback, this case can serve as an example for CrowdRE, i.e. several of our findings might apply to CrowdRE in general. However, further research is needed as our work mainly reflects the challenges experienced by the authors of this paper. © 2017 IEEE.
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- Iqbal, Tahira, et al.
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Generating requirements out of thin air : Towards automated feature identification for new apps
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2019. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. - 9781728151656 ; , s. 193-199
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- App store mining has proven to be a promising technique for requirements elicitation as companies can gain valuable knowledge to maintain and evolve existing apps. However, despite first advancements in using mining techniques for requirements elicitation, little is yet known how to distill requirements for new apps based on existing (similar) solutions and how exactly practitioners would benefit from such a technique. In the proposed work, we focus on exploring information (e.g. app store data) provided by the crowd about existing solutions to identify key features of applications in a particular domain. We argue that these discovered features and other related influential aspects (e.g. ratings) can help practitioners(e.g. software developer) to identify potential key features for new applications. To support this argument, we first conducted an interview study with practitioners to understand the extent to which such an approach would find champions in practice. In this paper, we present the first results of our ongoing research in the context of a larger road-map. Our interview study confirms that practitioners see the need for our envisioned approach. Furthermore, we present an early conceptual solution to discuss the feasibility of our approach. However, this manuscript is also intended to foster discussions on the extent to which machine learning can and should be applied to elicit automated requirements on crowd generated data on different forums and to identify further collaborations in this endeavor. © 2019 IEEE.
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- Seyff, Norbert, et al.
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End-user driven feedback prioritization
- 2017
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Ingår i: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. - : CEUR-WS.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- End-user feedback is becoming more important for the evolution of software systems. There exist various communication channels for end-users (app stores, social networks) which allow them to express their experiences and requirements regarding a software application. End-users communicate a large amount of feedback via these channels which leads to open issues regarding the use of end-user feedback for software development, maintenance and evolution. This includes investigating how to identify relevant feedback scattered across different feedback channels and how to determine the priority of the feedback issues communicated. In this research preview paper, we discuss ideas for enduser driven feedback prioritization. © Copyright 2017 for this paper by its authors.
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- Stade, Melanie, et al.
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Feedback Gathering from an Industrial Point of View
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2017. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. - 9781538631911 ; , s. 71-79
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Feedback communication channels allow end-users to express their needs, which can be considered in software development and evolution. Although feedback gathering and analysis have been identified as an important topic and several researchers have started their investigation, information is scarce on how software companies currently elicit end-user feedback. In this study, we explore the experiences of software companies with respect to feedback gathering. The results of a case study and online survey indicate two sides of the same coin: On the one hand, most software companies are aware of the relevance of end-user feedback for software evolution and provide feedback channels, which allow end-users to communicate their needs and problems. On the other hand, the quantity and quality of the feedback received varies. We conclude that software companies still do not fully exploit the potential of end-user feedback for software development and evolution. © 2017 IEEE.
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- Venters, Colin C., et al.
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Characterising sustainability requirements : A new species, red herring, or just an odd fish?
- 2017
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Ingår i: 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering. - 9781538626733 - 9781538626740 ; , s. 3-12
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Requirements articulating the needs of stakeholders are critical to successful system development and key to influencing their long-term effects. As the concept of sustainability has entered the discourse of a number of software-related computing fields, so has the term 'sustainability requirement'. However, it is unclear whether sustainability requirements areand should be different from how we already understand softwarerequirements. This paper presents the results of a corpus assisted discourse analysis study that explored the concept of sustainability requirements in order to understand how the term is being used in software and requirements engineeringand related fields. The results of this study reveal that theterm 'sustainability requirement' is generally used ambiguously and reveals significant segmentation across different fields. Ourdetailed analysis of selected influential papers highlights the segmented use of the term and suggests key focus questions that need to be addressed to establish a shared operative understanding of the term.
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- Venters, Colin C., et al.
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Mind the Gap : Bridging the Sustainable Software Systems Research Divide
- 2015
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Ingår i: Workshop on Sustainable HCI in the UK UK-SHCI.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sustainability is a major concern to humanity as a result of the consequences of the rapid consumption of the planets finite natural resources, combined with exponential economic and population growth. Principally associated with the field of ecology, sustainability has emerged as an important area of research in a number of sub-fields within the domain of computing including human-computer interaction. While these communities have attempted to address the challenges of sustainability from their different perspectives, there is a severe lack of common understanding of the fundamental concepts of sustainability and how they relate to software systems. As a result, there is a need for a common ground and consistent terminology to reduce the replication of effort. This paper presents the Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainabilty Design as a mechanism for initiating a conversation between the different communities in addressing the challenges of developing sustainable software systems.
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