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Often software engineering classes have the student concentrate on designing and planning the project but stop short of actual student team development of code. This leads to criticism by employers of new graduates that they are missing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Allan Brockenbrough

Capstone courses in undergraduate software engineering are a critical final milestone for students. These courses allow students to create a software solution and demonstrate the knowledge they accumulated in their degrees. However, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Ze Shi Li , Nowshin Nawar Arony , Kezia Devathasan , Daniela Damian

Motivations and challenges jointly shape how individuals enter, persist, and evolve within software engineering (SE), yet their interplay remains underexplored across the transition from education to professional practice. We conducted 15…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Aaliyah Chang , Mariam Guizani , Brittany Johnson

To bridge the digital skills gap, we need to train more people in Software Engineering techniques. This paper reports on a project exploring the way students solve tasks using collaborative development platforms and version control systems,…

Several papers have recently contained reports on applying machine learning (ML) to the automation of software engineering (SE) tasks, such as project management, modeling and development. However, there appear to be no approaches comparing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Nathalia Nascimento , Carlos Lucena , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

The goal of this paper is to investigate the connection between the performance gain that can be obtained by selftraining and the similarity between the corpora used in this approach. Self-training is a semi-supervised technique designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Vincent Van Asch , Walter Daelemans

Software has the potential to be a key driver in fostering sustainability. Despite this potential, it is not clear if and how the software industry integrates consideration of sustainability into its common software development processes.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Shola Oyedeji , Ruzanna Chitchyan , Mikhail Ola Adisa , Hatef Shamshiri

Context: Psychological safety (PS) is an important factor influencing team well-being and performance, particularly in collaborative and dynamic domains such as software development. Despite its acknowledged significance, research on PS…

Previous research has demonstrated that preparing students for life in software engineering is not a trivial task. Authentic learning experiences are challenging to provide, and there are gaps between what students have done at the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Saara Tenhunen , Tomi Männistö , Petri Ihantola , Jami Kousa , Matti Luukkainen

Self-adaptive software can assess and modify its behavior when the assessment indicates that the program is not performing as intended or when improved functionality or performance is available. Since the mid-1960s, the subject of system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tarik A. Rashid , Bryar A. Hassan , Abeer Alsadoon , Shko Qader , S. Vimal , Amit Chhabra , Zaher Mundher Yaseen

Aiming at the current problems of theory-oriented,practice-light,and lack of innovation ability in the teaching of postgraduate software engineering courses,a multi-stage feedback teaching mode for software engineering postgraduates based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Xiangdong Pei , Rui Zhang

We present a quasi-experiment to investigate whether, and to what extent, sleep deprivation impacts the performance of novice software developers using the agile practice of test-first development (TFD). We recruited 45 undergraduates and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Davide Fucci , Giuseppe Scanniello , Simone Romano , Natalia Juristo

Empathy is widely used in many disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, health care. Ability to empathise with software end-users seems to be a vital skill software developers should possess. This is because engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Hashini Gunatilake , John Grundy , Ingo Mueller , Rashina Hoda

Scientific software applications are increasingly developed by large interdiscplinary teams operating on functional modules organized around a common software framework, which is capable of integrating new functional capabilities without…

Performance · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Azamat Mametjanov , Boyana Norris

Many, but not all, Indian CS & IT academics tend to have a focus on theory and research. They do not give much importance to the practice of software development. This paper proposes an additional software development career track for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Ravi S. Iyer

Contribution: This article analyzes the learning effectiveness of a virtual educational escape room for teaching software engineering and compares this activity with traditional teaching through a randomized controlled trial. Background:…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Aldo Gordillo , Daniel López-Fernández

Background - Startup companies are becoming important suppliers of innovative and software intensive products. The failure rate among startups is high due to lack of resources, immaturity, multiple influences and dynamic technologies.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Eriks Klotins , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek

It's long been accepted that continuous integration (CI) in software engineering increases the code quality of enterprise projects when adhered to by it's practitioners. But is any of that effort to increase code quality and velocity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Parth Sane

Research has become increasingly reliant on software, serving as the driving force behind bioinformatics, high performance computing, physics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, to name a few. While substantial progress has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Vanessa Sochat

Contribution: A flipped classroom approach to teaching empirical software engineering increases student learning by providing more time for active learning in class. Background: There is a need for longitudinal studies of the flipped…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Lucas Gren