Understanding hypotheses engineering in software startups through a gray literature review

J Melegati, E Guerra, X Wang - Information and Software Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Context The higher availability of software usage data and the influence of the Lean Startup
led to the rise of experimentation in software engineering, a new approach for development …

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 …

XPro: a model to explain the limited adoption and implementation of experimentation in software startups

J Melegati, H Edison, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software startups develop innovative, software-intensive products or services. Such
innovativeness translates into uncertainty regarding a matching need for a product from …

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 …

QUESt: new practices to represent hypotheses in experiment-driven software development

J Melegati, X Wang - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recent studies have proposed the use of experiments to guide software development in
order to build features that users really want. In this context, product assumptions should be …

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 …

Model-based hypothesis engineering for supporting adaptation to uncertain customer needs

S Gottschalk, E Yigitbas, G Engels - International Symposium on Business …, 2020 - Springer
To build successful products, the developers have to adapt their product features and
business models to uncertain customer needs. This adaptation is part of the research …

Introduction to the Special Issue on: Grey Literature and Multivocal Literature Reviews (MLRs) in software engineering

V Garousi, A Rainer, M Felderer, MV Mäntylä - Information and software …, 2022 - Elsevier
In parallel to academic (peer-reviewed) literature (eg, journal and conference papers), an
enormous extent of grey literature (GL) has accumulated since the inception of software …