Impact in software engineering activities after one year of COVID-19 Restrictions for Startups and Established Companies

H Hooshyar, E Guerra, J Melegati, D Khanna… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic required software development teams
to adapt, being forced to work remotely and adjust the software engineering activities …

A Literature Study to Characterize Continuous Experimentation in Software Engineering

VM Erthal, P Bruno, PSM dos Santos… - Anais do XXV …, 2022 - sol.sbc.org.br
Continuous Experimentation (CE) has become increasingly popular across industry and
academic communities. Given its rapid evolution in software engineering (SE), the lack of a …

[HTML][HTML] Can adopting lean startup strategy promote the sustainable development of new ventures? The mediating role of organizational iterative learning

K Zhuge, H He, Y Yuan, P Sun - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
When high uncertainty becomes the norm in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial failure often
becomes the first natural barrier that new ventures face. In dynamic environment, there is still …

Analytics mistakes that derail software startups

U Rafiq, J Melegati, D Khanna, E Guerra… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
[Context] Software startups are engines of innovation and economy, yet building software
startups is challenging and subject to a high failure rate. They need to act and respond fast …

[HTML][HTML] A theory of factors affecting continuous experimentation (FACE)

R Ros, E Bjarnason, P Runeson - Empirical Software Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Context Continuous experimentation (CE) is used by many companies with internet-facing
products to improve their business models and software solutions based on user data. Some …

[HTML][HTML] Product managers in software startups: A grounded theory

J Melegati, I Wiese, E Guerra, R Chanin… - Information and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Context: Defining and designing a software product is not merely a technical endeavor, but
also a socio-technical journey. As such, its success is associated with human-related …

Characterization of continuous experimentation in software engineering: Expressions, models, and strategies

VM Erthal, BP de Souza, PSM dos Santos… - Science of Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Context Continuous Experimentation (CE) has become increasingly popular across
industry and academic communities. Major software organizations use CE to increase their …

HyMap: Eliciting hypotheses in early-stage software startups using cognitive mapping

J Melegati, E Guerra, X Wang - Information and Software Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Context: Software startups develop innovative, software-intensive products. Given the
uncertainty associated with such an innovative context, experimentation, an approach based …

Digital Mentor: towards a conversational bot to identify hypotheses for software startups

J Melegati, X Wang - Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Software startups develop innovative, software-intensive product and services. This context
leads to uncertainty regarding the software they are building. Experimentation, a process of …

[HTML][HTML] On the Characteristics of Internal Software Startups

A Tkalich, H Edison - International Conference on Software Business, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, more attention has been given to internal software startups in practice and in
research alike, yet the concept is not fully understood. Nor is it clear whether or not it …