Context A stable team is deemed optimal for agile software development project success;
however, all teams change membership over time. Newcomers joining an agile project team …

App store-inspired elicitation is the practice of exploring competitors' apps, to get inspiration
for requirements. This activity is common among developers, but little insight is available on …

In microtask programming, developers complete short self-contained microtasks through the
use of a specialized programming environment. For example, given only a short description …

Software complexity decreases maintenance productivity, as do team attributes of instability
and knowledge diversity. We know little about the extent to which the two team attributes …

Documentation is an important mechanism for disseminating software architecture
knowledge. Software project teams can employ vastly different formats for documenting …

Recruiting and onboarding software testing professionals are complex and cost intensive
activities. Whether onboarding is successful and sustainable depends on both the employee …

Empirical studies on formal methods and tools are rare. In this paper, we provide guidelines
for such studies. We mention their main ingredients and then define nine different study …

Recruiting and onboarding software testing professionals are complex and cost intensive
activities. Whether onboarding is successful and sustainable depends on both the employee …

Background: Newbies in their early stage of software engineering careers suffer from
unfitting task assignments, unclear job expectations, and insufficient communication with …

Context Effort estimation based on user stories plays a pivotal role in agile software
development, where accurate predictions of project efforts are vital for success. While …