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The landscape of software engineering is undergoing a transformative shift driven by advancements in machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and autonomous systems. This roadmap paper explores how these technologies are reshaping the field, ...

Women are underrepresented in Computer Science (CS)/ Software Engineering (SE) and other technology related degrees. As undergraduates, they are also less likely to persist with CS/SE studies than men enrolled in those same courses. Gender ...

• Identified differences in learning styles, motivations, goals, and frustrations.
• Developed male and female CS/SE student persona.
• Successful application of GenderMag with new personas on education software.
• New personas could ...

Model-driven approaches are increasingly used in different domains, such as education, finance and app development, in order to involve non-developers in the software development process. Such tools are hugely dependent on visual ...

• We report an analysis of the literature on the accessibility of low-code approaches.
• We investigate the accessibility considerations in the existing literature.
• We categorise the model-driven methods adopted in the existing ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly impacted numerous domains, including Software Engineering (SE). Many recent publications have explored LLMs applied to various SE tasks. Nevertheless, a comprehensive understanding of the application, ...

Human-centric software design and development prioritises the way users prefer to complete their jobs, rather than expecting users to adapt to the software. Software users can have different genders, ages, cultures, languages, ...

• We explore “human-centric defects” in software caused by end-user human differences.
• We describe results from a survey of 50 and detailed interviews of 10 practitioners.
• We provide key recommendations for SE practitioners to ...

React Native, an open-source framework, simplifies cross-platform app development by allowing JavaScript-side code to interact with native-side code. Previous studies disregarded React Native, resulting in insufficient static analysis of React Native app ...

TODO comments play an important role in helping developers to manage their tasks and communicate with other team members. TODO comments are often introduced by developers as a type of technical debt, such as a reminder to add/remove features or a request ...

The majority of Information Technology (IT)/Software Engineering (SE) professionals are male. A potential reason for the low number of female IT/SE professionals might be that the roles and the way they are advertised are biased towards male ...

• According to hiring managers and professionals IT/SE job advertisements are biased.
• Using neutral words are important.
• Male and female candidate preferences are also very important.
• Encourage inclusion, describe the team and ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in various application domains, largely due to their self-supervised pre-training on extensive high-quality text datasets. However, despite the importance of constructing such datasets,...

Deploying deep learning (DL) models on mobile applications (Apps) has become ever-more popular. However, existing studies show attackers can easily reverse-engineer mobile DL models in Apps to steal intellectual property or generate effective attacks. A ...

Machine learning (ML) components are used heavily in many current software systems, but developing them responsibly in practice remains challenging. 'Responsible ML' refers to developing, deploying and maintaining ML-based systems that adhere to human-...

Smart contract developers frequently seek solutions to developmental challenges on Q&A platforms such as Stack Overflow (SO). Although community responses often provide viable solutions, the embedded code snippets can also contain hidden vulnerabilities. ...

Recent studies show that on-device deployed deep learning (DL) models, such as those of Tensor Flow Lite (TFLite), can be easily extracted from real-world applications and devices by attackers to generate many kinds of adversarial and other attacks. ...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) uses blockchain technologies to transform traditional financial activities into decentralized platforms that run without intermediaries and centralized institutions. Smart contracts are programs that run on the ...

Like all people, software developers feel several emotions when working on agile projects. But what are the underlying reasons for these emotions? Can we boost developer satisfaction and productivity by remedying the causes of negative emotions? We ...

Software development is a collaborative process that involves various interactions among individuals and teams. TODO comments in source code play a critical role in managing and coordinating diverse tasks during this process. However, this study finds ...

Software vulnerabilities (SVs) have become a common, serious, and crucial concern due to the ubiquity of computer software. Many AI-based approaches have been proposed to solve the software vulnerability detection (SVD) problem to ensure the security and ...

Background: Research shows that emotional intelligence (EI) should be used alongside cognitive intelligence during requirements change (RC) handling in Software Engineering (SE), especially in agile settings. Objective: We wanted to study the role of EI ...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we live, work and the way we conduct research. With the restrictions of lockdowns and social distancing, various impacts were experienced by many software engineering researchers, especially whose studies ...

The pleasure that often comes with eating can be further enhanced with intelligent technology, as the field of human-food interaction suggests. However, knowledge on how to design such pleasure-supporting eating systems is limited. To begin filling this ...