Case Studies on End-User Engagement and Prototyping during Software Development

2016 ◽  
pp. 183-213
Author(s):  
Franziska Dobrigkeit ◽  
Sebastian Meyer ◽  
Matthias Uflacker
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
End User

scholarly journals End-User Software Development: Effectiveness of a Software Engineering-Centric Instructional Strategy

10.28945/4580 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 367-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilenia Fronza ◽  
Luis Corral ◽  
Claus Pahl
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Instructional Strategy ◽  
End Users ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
End User ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Product

Aim/Purpose: This work aims to introduce and evaluate an instructional strategy that aids end-users with developing their software products during intensive project-based events. Background: End-users produce software in the labor market, and one of the challenges for End-User Software Engineering (EUSE) is the need to create functional software products without a formal education in software development. Methodology: In this work, we present an instructional strategy to expose end-users to Agile-based Software Engineering (SE) practices and enhance their ability to developing high-quality software. Moreover, we introduce a SE approach for the collection of metrics to assess the effectiveness of the instructional strategy. We conducted two case studies to validate the effectiveness of our strategy; the comprehensive analysis of the outcome products evaluates the strategy and demonstrates how to interpret the collected metrics. Contribution: This work contributes to the research and practitioner body of knowledge by leveraging SE centric concepts to design an instructional strategy to lay the foundations of SE competencies in inexperienced developers. This work presents an instructional strategy to develop SE competencies through an intensive and time-bound structure that may be replicated. Moreover, the present work introduces a framework to evaluate these competencies from a product-centric approach, specialized for non-professional individuals. Finally, the framework contributes to understanding how to assess software quality when the software product is written in non-conventional, introductory programming languages. Findings: The results show the effectiveness of our instructional strategy: teams were successful in constructing a working software product. However, participants did not display a good command of source code order and structure. Recommendations for Practitioners: Our instructional strategy provides practitioners with a framework to lay foundations in SE competencies during intensive project-based events. Based on the results of our case studies, we provide a set of recommendations for educational practice. Recommendation for Researchers: We propose an assessment framework to analyze the effectiveness of the instructional strategy from a SE perspective. This analysis provides an overall picture of the participants’ performance; other researchers could use our framework to evaluate the effectiveness of their activities, which would contribute to increasing the possibility of comparing the effectiveness of different instructional strategies. Impact on Society: Given the number of end-user developers who create software products without a formal SE training, several professional and educational contexts can benefit from our proposed instructional strategy and assessment framework. Future Research: Further research can focus on improving the assessment framework by including both process and product metrics to shed light on the effectiveness of the instructional strategies.

A Decision Making Paradigm for Software Development in Libraries

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
Harish Maringanti
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Application System ◽  
Prescriptive Model ◽  
Proprietary System

Framing a technology question as a simple choice between developing an in- house application system and off-the- shelf proprietary system, or simply put, as a choice between build and buy, runs the risk of ignoring myriad options available in between the two extremes. In this era of cloud computing and run anything-as- a-service model, the very notion of developing an in-house application would raise a few eyebrows among C- level executives. How then can academic libraries, under mounting pressure to demonstrate their value (Oakleaf, 2010), justify investments in software development in particular? What follows in these sections is a brief discussion on the importance of investing in software development in libraries, three mini-case studies demonstrating the wide possibilities of integrating software development in library operations and a non- prescriptive model to assess which projects may be worth pursuing from the software development standpoint.

From Natural Language to Programming Language

2018 ◽  
pp. 110-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Liu ◽  
Dinghao Wu
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Program Synthesis ◽  
Computer Programs

Programming remains a dark art for beginners or even professional programmers. Experience indicates that one of the first barriers for learning a new programming language is the rigid and unnatural syntax and semantics. After analysis of research on the language features used by non-programmers in describing problem solving, the authors propose a new program synthesis framework, dialog-based programming, which interprets natural language descriptions into computer programs without forcing the input formats. In this chapter, they describe three case studies that demonstrate the functionalities of this program synthesis framework and show how natural language alleviates challenges for novice programmers to conduct software development, scripting, and verification.

Designing Agent-Based Process Systems-Extending the OPEN Process Framework

2011 ◽  
pp. 160-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Debenham ◽  
B. Henderson-Sellers
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Process Systems ◽  
Development Methodology ◽  
Process Framework ◽  
Open Process ◽  
Object Technology ◽  
Additional Process ◽  
Agent Orientation

Originally a development methodology targeted at object technology, the OPEN Process Framework (OPF) is found to be a successful basis for extensions that support agent-oriented software development. Here we describe the process components necessary to agent-oriented support and illustrate the extensions by means of two small case studies that illustrate the extensions by means of two small case studies that illustrate both task-driven processes and goal-driven processes. The additional process components for Tasks and Techniques are all generated from the OPF’s metamodel, which gives the OPF its flexibility and tailorability to a wide variety of situations—here agent-orientation.

A Decision Making Paradigm for Software Development in Libraries

2022 ◽  
pp. 1444-1457
Author(s):  
Harish Maringanti
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Application System ◽  
Prescriptive Model ◽  
Proprietary System

Framing a technology question as a simple choice between developing an in- house application system and off-the- shelf proprietary system, or simply put, as a choice between build and buy, runs the risk of ignoring myriad options available in between the two extremes. In this era of cloud computing and run anything-as- a-service model, the very notion of developing an in-house application would raise a few eyebrows among C- level executives. How then can academic libraries, under mounting pressure to demonstrate their value (Oakleaf, 2010), justify investments in software development in particular? What follows in these sections is a brief discussion on the importance of investing in software development in libraries, three mini-case studies demonstrating the wide possibilities of integrating software development in library operations and a non- prescriptive model to assess which projects may be worth pursuing from the software development standpoint.

Enhancing Security Culture through User-Engagement

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Said Jafari
Keyword(s):  
User Engagement ◽  
End User ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Security Officers ◽  
Security Problem

This paper presents the survey conducted to assess end-user engagement in building organisation's security. A total of forty-eight (48) responses were collected from fifteen (15) mid-sized business organisations and institutions in Tanzania. The results show that little has been done to facilitate end-user engagement in building secure organisation. Also, the survey showed that old security problem such as passwords sharing still exist. The findings from this paper can be used by security officers and implementers within organisation to build and maintain sustainable secure organisation.

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