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Today's significant technological advancement allows early-stage software startups to build and launch innovative products quickly on the market. However, many of them die in the early years of their path due to market conditions, ignorance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Renata Souza , Orges Cico , Ivan Machado

In the context of software startups, project failure is embraced actively and considered crucial to obtain validated learning that can lead to pivots. A pivot is the strategic change of a business concept, product or the different elements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Sohaib Shahid Bajwa , Xiaofeng Wang , Anh Nguyen Duc , Pekka Abrahamsson

Software startups continue to be important drivers of economy globally. As the initial investment required to found a new software company becomes smaller and smaller resulting from technological advances such as cloud technology,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Kai-Kristian Kemell , Ville Ravaska , Anh Nguyen-Duc , Pekka Abrahamsson

Context: Software startups are newly created companies with no operating history and fast in producing cutting-edge technologies. These companies develop software under highly uncertain conditions, tackling fast-growing markets under severe…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Nicolò Paternoster , Carmine Giardino , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek , Pekka Abrahamsson

Producing high-quality code is essential as it makes a codebase more maintainable, reducing the cost and effort associated with a project. However, students learning to program are often given short, automatically graded programming tasks…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Etienne Naude , Paul Denny , Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Failure studies are important in revealing the root causes, behaviors, and life cycle of defects in software systems. These studies either focus on understanding the characteristics of defects in specific classes of systems or the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Paschal C. Amusuo , Aishwarya Sharma , Siddharth R. Rao , Abbey Vincent , James C. Davis

The software engineering field has a long history of classifying software failure causes. Understanding them is paramount for fault injection, focusing testing efforts or reliability prediction. Since software fails in manifold complex…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Lena Feinbube , Peter Tröger , Andreas Polze

Context: On top of the inherent challenges startup software companies face applying proper software engineering practices, the non-deterministic nature of machine learning techniques makes it even more difficult for machine learning (ML)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Bishal Lakha , Kalyan Bhetwal , Nasir U. Eisty

Background: The state of the art in software engineering consists of a myriad of contributions and the gaps between them; it is difficult to characterize. Questions: In order to help understanding the state of the art, can we identify gaps…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Lutz Prechelt

The software process model consists of a set of activities undertaken to design, develop and maintain software systems. A variety of software process models have been designed to structure, describe and prescribe the software development…

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Many dependability techniques expect certain behaviors from the underlying subsystems and fail in chaotic ways if these expectations are not met. Under expected circumstances, however, software tends to work quite well. This paper suggests…

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In order to cope with a complex and changing environment, industries seek to find new and more efficient ways to conduct their business. According to previous research, many of these change efforts fail to achieve their intended aims.…

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Software engineering is a highly dynamic discipline. Hence, as times change, so too might our beliefs about core processes in this field. This paper checks some five beliefs that originated in the past decades that comment on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-26 N. C. Shrikanth , William Nichols , Fahmid Morshed Fahid , Tim Menzies

In order to solve today's complex problems in the world of software development, technical knowledge is no longer enough. Previous studies investigating and identifying non-technical skills of software engineers show that creative skills…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Wouter Groeneveld , Laurens Luyten , Joost Vennekens , Kris Aerts

Addressing women's under-representation in the software industry, a widely recognized concern, requires attracting as well as retaining more women. Hearing from women practitioners, particularly those positioned in multi-cultural settings,…

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The damage caused by cybercrime makes the development of secure software inevitable. Although many tools and frameworks exist to support the development of secure software, statistics on cybercrime show no improvement in recent years. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Alex R. Mattukat , Timo Langstrof , Horst Lichter

The happy-productive worker thesis states that happy workers are more productive. Recent research in software engineering supports the thesis, and the ideal of flourishing happiness among software developers is often expressed among…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Daniel Graziotin , Fabian Fagerholm , Xiaofeng Wang , Pekka Abrahamsson

It is no secret that many projects fail, regardless of the business sector, software projects are notoriously disaster victims, not necessarily because of technological failure, but more often due to their uncertainties. The threats…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Marcelo Marinho , Suzana Sampaio , Telma Lima , Hermano Moura

Software misconfiguration has consistently been a major reason for software failures. Over the past two decades, much work has been done to detect and diagnose software misconfigurations. However, there is still a gap between real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuhao Liu , Yingnan Zhou , Hanfeng Zhang , Zhiwei Chang , Sihan Xu , Yan Jia , Wei Wang , Juncheng Hu , Zheli Liu

Defect prevention is the most vital but habitually neglected facet of software quality assurance in any project. If functional at all stages of software development, it can condense the time, overheads and wherewithal entailed to engineer a…

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