Abstract Software rarely works as intended when it is first written. Software engineering research has long been concerned with assessing why software fails and who is to blame, or why a piece of software is flawed and how to prevent such faults in the future. Errors are examined in the Read more…
César França, Helen Sharp, Fabio Q. B. da Silva Abstract Context – Motivation and job satisfaction are not the same thing, and although business organization research recognized this a long time ago, in Software Engineering research, we have not. As a result, thirty years of research on motivation in software engineering has Read more…
Helen Sharp, Nathan Baddoo, Sarah Beecham, Tracy Hall, Hugh Robinson Abstract Motivation in software engineering is recognized as a key success factor for software projects, but although there are many papers written about motivation in software engineering, the field lacks a comprehensive overview of the area. In particular, several models of motivation have been proposed, but they either Read more…
Tamara Lopez, Marian Petre, Bashar Nuseibeh Abstract Software rarely works as intended while it is being written. Things go wrong in the midst of everyday practice, and developers are commonly understood to form theories and strategies for dealing with them. Errors in this sense are not bugs left behind in software, Read more…
Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Alf Zugenmaier, Makayla Lewis Abstract As governments increasingly deliver services over the Internet, the opportunities for monitoring and surveillance of society increase. In public services to support the vulnerable, such as welfare, monitoring and surveillance functionality is often regarded by system designers as important components in defences against fraud and system Read more…