Ethics are essential in DevOps for promoting transparency, trust, security, quality, continuous improvement, and user-centricity, as they guide individuals and organizations to make responsible choices and develop high-quality, secure, and reliable ...

This paper discusses the challenges in evaluating the quality of conceptual models in educational settings. While automated grading techniques may work for simplistic modeling tasks, realistic modeling tasks that allow for a wide variety of solutions ...

Programming languages often demarcate the internal sandbox, consisting of entities such as objects and variables, from the outside world, e.g., files or network. Although communication with the external world poses fundamental challenges for live ...

As a part of a research project concerning software maintainability assessment in collaboration with the development team, we wanted to explore dissensions between developers and the confounding effect of size. To this end, this study replicated and ...

Repairing design models is a laborious task that requires a considerable amount of time and effort from developers. Repair recommendation (RR) approaches focus on reducing the effort and improving the quality of the repairs performed. Such approaches ...

Requirements validation is an important aspect for ensuring high quality software. Commonly used are requirements inspections, where the specification is read from different persons assuming different roles or applying different reading techniques, ...

Technical debt is often the result of Short Run decisions made during code development, which can lead to long-term maintenance costs and risks. Hence, evaluating the progression of a project and understanding related code quality aspects is essential. ...

Background: The UK cyber skills gap/shortage amplifies the broader impact of cyber-attacks, which inflict harms such as privacy and economic loss on wider society. The demand is greatest (and growing fastest) in cyber-enabled disciplines, such as ...

Binary classifiers are commonly used in software engineering research to estimate several software qualities, e.g., defectiveness or vulnerability. Thus, it is important to adequately evaluate how well binary classifiers perform, before they are used ...

Background: Adaptive user interfaces have the advantage of being able to dynamically change their aspect and/or behaviour depending on the characteristics of the context of use, i.e. to improve user experience. User experience is an important quality ...

Background: Construct validity concerns the use of indicators to measure a concept that is not directly measurable. Aim: This study intends to identify, categorize, assess and quantify discussions of threats to construct validity in empirical software ...