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Software organizations are increasingly incorporating machine learning (ML) into their product offerings, driving a need for new data management tools. Many of these tools facilitate the initial development of ML applications, but…

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Software product line (SPL) engineers put a lot of effort to ensure that, through the setting of a large number of possible configuration options, products are acceptable and well-tailored to customers' needs. Unfortunately, options and…

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Curricula recommendation for undergraduate Software Engineering courses underscore the importance of transcending from traditional lecture format to actively involving students in time-limited, iterative development practices. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Elaine Venson , Reem Alfayez

High-quality education helps in finding a job - but student skills heterogeneity and student reluctance to move towards a professional attitude are important barriers to employability. We re-engineered some of the technical courses of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Vincent Ribaud , Philippe Saliou

Software Product Lines SPL are recognized as a successful approach to reuse in software development.Its purpose is to reduce production costs. This approach allows products to be different with respect of particular characteristics and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sami Ouali

Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching technique in which authentic, real-world projects are used as the primary vehicle to drive the student's learning experience. This technique has been found to be very effective, but its overall…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-19 James Taylor

Safety-critical software systems are in many cases designed and implemented as families of products, usually referred to as Software Product Lines (SPLs). Products within an SPL vary from each other in terms of which features they include.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ramy Shahin , Sahar Kokaly , Marsha Chechik

Software (SW) development is a labor intensive activity. Modern software projects generally have to deal with producing and managing large and complex software products. Developing such software has become an extremely challenging job not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Ardhendu Mandal

Developers frequently move into new teams or environments across software companies. Their onboarding experience is correlated with productivity, job satisfaction, and other short-term and long-term outcomes. The majority of the onboarding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-10 An Ju , Hitesh Sajnani , Scot Kelly , Kim Herzig

This paper presents a novel approach to the design verification of Software Product Lines(SPL). The proposed approach assumes that the requirements and designs are modeled as finite state machines with variability information. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-12-19 Jean-Vivien Millo , S. Ramesh , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Ganesh Khandu Narwane

Learning to use feature-rich software is a persistent challenge, but generative AI tools promise to lower this barrier by replacing complex navigation with natural language prompts. We investigated how people approach prompt-based tools for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kanak Gautam , Poorvi Bhatia , Parmit K. Chilana

Software product lines have recently been presented as one of the best promising improvements for the efficient software development. Different research works contribute supportive parameters and negotiations regarding the problems of…

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Building of tools--from simple prototypes to industrial-strength applications--is a pervasive activity in academic research. When proposing a new technique for software maintenance, effective tool support is typically required to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-08-05 Holger M. Kienle , Hausi A. Müller

Programming Language Processing (PLP) using machine learning has made vast improvements in the past few years. Increasingly more people are interested in exploring this promising field. However, it is challenging for new researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Patrick Flynn , Tristan Vanderbruggen , Chunhua Liao , Pei-Hung Lin , Murali Emani , Xipeng Shen

Writing complex computer programs to study scientific problems requires careful planning and an in-depth knowledge of programming languages and tools. In this chapter the importance of using the right tool for the right problem is…

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The integration of tools in augmenting large language models presents a novel approach toward enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of these models in handling specific, complex tasks. This paper delves into the methodology,challenges, and…

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The value of a systematic secondary study (a systematic mapping study (SMS) or a systematic literature review (SLR)) comes, directly, from its systematic nature. The formal, well-defined, objective and unbiased process guarantees that the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-04 José L. Barros-Justo , Luisa Rincón , Ángela Villota , Wesley K. G. Assunção

Different organisations often run similar digitised business processes to achieve their business goals. However, organisations often need to slightly adapt the business processes implemented in an information system in order to adopt them.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Philipp Hehnle , Manfred Reichert

AI-supported tools can help learners overcome challenges in programming education by providing adaptive assistance. However, existing research often focuses on individual tools rather than deriving broader design recommendations. A key…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zihan Wu , Yicheng Tang , Barbara Ericson

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) has become increasingly critical as more organisations move ML models into production. However, the growing landscape of MLOps solutions has introduced complexity for practitioners trying to select…

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