Top Research Papers on Software Engineering

A novel first-year Software Engineering-First (SE-First) curriculum that introduces students to the broader picture of software development while students learn fundamental computing concepts, and their self-efficacy is described.

A special track on Software Engineering (SE Track) aims to be a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners, in academia and industry to share new ideas, experiences and results, and to present their latest findings in any aspects of Software Engineering.

The First International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2020) was held between July 2 and July 3, 2020, co-located with the 42nd International Conference on software Engineering (ICSE 2020).

This paper proposes a shift towards Software Engineering 3.0, an AI-native approach characterized by intent-first, conversation-oriented development between human developers and AI teammates, and presents a roadmap of challenges that must be overcome to realize the vision of SE 3.0.

Software Engineering ist eine Ingenieursdisziplin, die von einem regen Austausch zwischen Wirtschaft and Wissenschaft profitiert, die sich der Zusammenarbeit mit Unternehmen in Forschung and Entwicklung and dem Transfer of Wissen and Technologien verschrieben haben.

A special track on Software Engineering (SE Track) aims to be a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners, in academia and industry to share new ideas, experiences and results, and to present their latest findings in any aspects of Software Engineering.

SE Arena, an interactive platform designed to evaluate SE-focused chatbots, provides a transparent, open-source leaderboard, supports multi-round conversational workflows, and enables end-to-end model comparisons.

This workshop facilitates collaboration by bringing together members of the SE community and the CSE community to share perspectives and present findings from research and practice relevant to CSE software.

A MABKM model for knowledge communities that will worked as a solution for Knowledge communities and support of software engineering based on the multi agent based Knowledge management principle is proposed.

The model SE-EMCM provides valuable information for top management, IT application development team members, and the IT industry in general to decrease the number of failed IT projects that are caused in part by the human factor by knowing what problems have occurred in the past is now more controllable with the model.

During a roundtable at the New Delhi meeting of the ISO committee responsible for software and systems engineering standards 1, a member of the audience asked if software engineering professors that do not teach software engineering standards to software engineering students could be accused of malpractice.

This workshop is concerned with the development of Computational Science & Engineering (CS&E) software, where the focus is on directly solving scientific problems and applications that support scientific endeavors.

A significant portion of the workshop is devoted to discussion of the position papers with the goal of generating a research agenda to improve tools, techniques, and experimental methods for CS&E software engineering in the future.

This workshop facilitates collaboration by bringing together members of the CSE and SE communities to share perspectives and present findings from research and practice relevant to CSE software and CSE SE education.

The software engineering practices of environmental scientists are captured, opportunities for software engineering are highlighted, and work towards developing a domain specific language for the configuration and deployment of environmental models is worked towards.

Frontiers in Computer Science—Software reports empirical studies and emerging topics in software engineering including tools, development platforms, industrial processes, management infrastructures, quality assurance schemes, big data systems, and software migrations across languages and platforms.

It is shown that agile techniques have many advantages for software development projects, including improved client satisfaction, better cooperation, and flexibility, and the use of agile approaches, however, is not without its difficulties.

The 6th International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering: Engineering fun, inspiration, and motivation (GAS 2023 ) 1, which was held as part of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022), includes two exciting keynotes discussing topics related to training and learning, and fulfilling the promise and potential of gamification.

This review paper synthesizes findings from nine re- search papers on software engineering for the Internet of Things to provide a snapshot of the current state and offers a forward-looking perspective on the transformative potential of IoT and the role of software engineering in realizing it.

There is a need for identifying factors that impact sustainability at an individual level and their interplay with the team and organization level practices, policies, and decisions to ensure engineers' sustainability and enable highquality software development.

This comparison represents the beginning of a context-dependent methodology for software engineering, in which practices are recommended based on the distinct properties of the problem domain and the solutions expected therein.

This article discusses the unsolved problem of taxing collaborative software engineering across borders, which has an overlooked legal implication when developers collaborate across national borders.

Revised curriculum guidelines help university faculty create or update undergraduate software engineering programs and provide guidance on how to design and administer courses.

Process for producing a buried insulating layer in a semiconductor substrate by ion implantation, which involves producing a mask on the substrate regions where the active zones are located.

Evidence suggesting that human-written code in different languages, is rather similar, and particularly preserving of identifier naming patterns, is presented, to find evidence that available multilingual training data (across different languages) can be used to amplify performance.

Given the current state of quantum computing, the authors need to go back to the path software engineering took in the last century to achieve the new golden age for quantum software engineering.

Drawing from the experience in conducting three different studies using Prolific, refined best practices for recruiting and screening participants to enhance the quality and relevance of both qualitative and quantitative software engineering research samples are proposed.

This work investigates the different levels of abstraction, linked to the diverse artifacts of the scientific software development process, that a software language can propose and the validation and verification facilities associated with the corresponding level of abstraction the language can provide to the user.

An interactive, scenario-based Software Ethics Quiz was developed to teach SE students about ethics in a comprehensive, open, and engaging manner through a combined approach of an online lecture followed by an interactive workshop with the quiz and a debriefing session.

This article investigates the research efforts that have been conducted on the creation of assistants for software design, construction and maintenance paying special attention to the user‐assistant interactions and proposes a classification of software assistants based on interactions and presents an analysis of the different automation patterns.

The structure of the Applied Software Engineering program and the elements that incorporate novel and high-impact practices in computing education and, specifically, software engineering are detailed to share and invite feedback and comments that can help it measure and improve its success.

Children’s perceptions of technology may have become more accessible as a result of the COVID-19 situation and they seem more willing to recognize diversity, an improvement compared with what was reported in previous studies.

This tutorial defines what a bot is and presents several examples, including helping in development tasks, onboarding newcomers to a project, and the challenges related to interacting with and developing software bots.

A quantitative analysis of the awareness of construct validity in the software engineering literature between 2000 and 2019 and a qualitative review of 83 articles about human-centric experiments published in five high-quality journals between 2015 and 2019 propose seven guidelines to improve how construct validity is handled and reported in software engineering.

The Fourth International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2023) was held on May 14, 2023 in a hybrid manner in Melbourne, Australia, and online and the themes of the presented papers are presented.

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This paper delves into the integration of software engineering principles, methodologies, and technologies within the healthcare sector, highlighting key applications such as Electronic Health Records, telemedicine platforms, clinical decision support systems, and medical imaging software.

3 aspects related to both types of data mining are examined, the underlying data used for constructing models, the models themselves, and validation techniques, which make it possible to determine the financial impact of delivering software on time or with fewer defects.

With the gain in computing power and access to a wide range of software, software engineers are working on technologies such as Big Data, AI, Data Science, and Cybersecurity to improve the existing methodologies and pave the way for patient-centric approaches and knowledge translation.

This paper studies the application strategy of software engineering technology in the system software development process for reference and proposes a strategy to effectively solve various problems in the process of software development.

A reference architecture for pervasive computing is proposed that provides conceptual views for the smart environment, the smart object, and the pervasive system and provides a new architecture model that can be used in almost any business context.

The 4th International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software Engineering (CSI-SE) seeks to understand how crowdsourcing is shaping and disrupting software development, shedding light on the opportunities and challenges.

Pervasive computing reference architecture from a software engineering perspective from aSoftware engineering perspective (PervCompRA-SE) in master's thesis, American University in Cairo, 2017.

This experience report discusses the experience conducting sample studies using Prolific, an academic crowdsourcing platform, and Topics discussed are the type of studies, selection processes, and power computation.

Why it is important to provide guidance for using generative AI and, thus, integrate it in courses rather than accepting the unsupervised use by students, which can negatively impact the students' learning is pointed out.

Software Engineering (SE) researchers are increasingly paying attention to organizational and human factors, rather than focusing only on variables that can be directly measured, such as lines of c...

The evidence relating IP to software engineers provides a starting point to help organizations find ways to raise awareness of the problem and improve the emotional skills of software professionals.

This short paper accompanies the keynote given by Federica Sarro at the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Hanover, Germany, September 2023.

The main focus of this workshop was to provide a venue for discussion of problems related to the application of software engineering principles to the development of Computational Science and Engineering software.

It is argued that continuously managing and controlling intentions as well as their fulfillment has the potential to improve the reasoning about which stakeholder requests have been addressed, avoid misunderstandings, and prevent expensive retrospective analyses.