Category: Evidence-Based Software Engineering
NxG^GSD got large funding
I am very excited to share with all those interested in global software engineering that we have received a large grant from the Danish Strategic Council for our GSD project :-). The project ‘Next Generation Technology for Global Software Development (NxG^GSD) has received 18 million Kroner under the research program of strategic growth technologies. The…
Global Software Engineering Challenges for the Next Decade
This is the main theme of the next year’s one of the largest gatherings of academic and corporate researchers, and practitioners interested in Global Software Engineering (GSE) – I am referring to the sixth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) to be held in Helsinki, Finland. Now we are moving into the final…
Non-Functional Requirements in Systems and Software Engineering
Non-Functional Requirements, quality attributes, architecturally significant requirements, extra-functional requirements, or whatever you call them, are the main driving force behind the key design or development decisions in any large scale software-intensive system development. It is widely recognized that quality attributes of a system largely depend on the overall architecture of such systems. Hence, it is…
Summer School on EBSE
I am extremely delighted to annouce that I have seized an opportunity to run a summer school for PhD students on Systematic Literature Reviews and Systematic Mapping studies, two of the fundamental research methodologies of Evidence Based Software Engineering. The story is something like this – Jason Zhang was coming to Europe from Australia to…
GIRI Day
This post is about a very interesting and interactive day organized to mark the one year celebration of GIRI, that is why called GIRI day :-). Along with other colleagues, I also gave a talk about our research and activities that fall within the scope of GIRI, which is also funding one of my PhD…
Going to EASE is always good!
I like the gathering of Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) for several reasons; apart from the conference is considered a high quality one despite having a limited number of papers and delegates, my mentor in empirical research, Barbara Kitchenham, has been heavily involved in EASE’s organizating committees until quite recently. So I not…
Agility and Architecture – Why and How to combine them?
Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that Agile approaches have had significant impact on industrial software development practices. Many companies which I have come to know through my collaborative and consultancy contacts, especially in Scandinavian region, have adopted and/or are planning to adopt agile approaches. Despite becoming widely popular, there remains…