Young Software Engineer of the Year 2021

BCS-in-Scotland, a grouping of the BCS Branches and Specialist Groups in Scotland, continued its long-standing involvement with the annual ScotSoft event organised by ScotlandIS. Mike Hurst, Treasurer and Webmaster of the BCS Edinburgh Branch, reports.

Computing in the statistical office

Computing with data is at the hart activity of the statistical office. Yet, the area of technical computing often falls between the two stools of data analysts and IT developers. In this paper we analyze the importance of computational skills in the Generic Statistical Business Process Model. Next, we give an overview of computational topics that are of importance to the statistical office. Many of these skills turn out to be of highly technical nature. After this, we try to provoke a wider discussion on the role of technical computing by 1) introducing the role of the Research Software Engineer into the field of official statistics and 2) propose a six semester bachelor’s curriculum in official statistics.

The 10 best practices for remote software engineering

Focusing on the human element of remote software engineer productivity.

A conversation with Kashyap Tumkur

Ubiquity's senior editor Dr. Bushra Anjum chats with Kashyap Tumkur, a software engineer at Verily Life Sciences, the healthcare and life sciences arm of Alphabet. They discuss how the notion of "precision medicine" has gained popularity in recent times. Next, the focus turns to Tumkur's work, where he, along with his team, is working on collecting and integrating continuous time-series data to create a map of human health.

Non-Functional Requirement Detection Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

A key aspect of software quality is when the software has been operated functionally and meets user needs. A primary concern with non-functional requirements is that they always being neglected because their information is hidden in the documents. NFR is a tacit knowledge about the system and as a human, a user usually hardly know how to describe NFR. Hence, affect the NFR to be absent during the elicitation process. The software engineer has to act proactively to demand the software quality criteria from the user so the objective of requirements can be achieved. In order to overcome these problems, we use machine learning to detect the indicator term of NFR in textual requirements so we can remind the software engineer to elicit the missing NFR.We developed a prototype tool to support our approach to classify the textual requirements and using supervised machine learning algorithms. Survey wasdone toevaluate theeffectiveness of the prototype tool in detecting the NFR.

Emerging Software Engineering Research Networks in (East) Africa

Software engineering (SE) researchers and research networks from emerging communities are often not visible in already established Software Engineering venues for a multitude of reasons. This limits the opportunities and mutual bene ts that can arise from collaborations between global and emerging Software Engineer- ing networks. This article focuses on a rst attempt to provide a map of the African software engineering research community with focus on the networks of two big East African Universities. We hope that this very initial mapping e ort will help to raise aware- ness in the international community about the variety of software engineering research in Africa. We formulate some suggestions for making our academic Software Engineering community more inclusive.

Perancangan dan Pengembangan Sistem Informasi

Artikel ini memuat tulisan tentang Sepuluh model pengembangan sistem informasi yang ditulis oleh Roger S. Pressman (2001) diperkaya dengan tulisan dari para ahli yang lainnya. Kesepuluh model tersebut adalah [1] The linear sequential model (model sekuensial linier), [2] The prototyping model (model pembuatan prototipe), [3] The RAD model (model RAD), [4] The incremental model (model inkremental).[5] The spiral model (model spiral), [6] The WINWIN spiral model (model spiral WINWIN)[7] The concurrent development model (model pengembangan konkuren), [8] The component-based development model (model pembangunan berbasis komponen), [9] The formal methods model (model metode formal), [10] The fourth generation techniques model (model teknik generasi keempat). Uraian selanjutnya adalah mengenai pekerjaan yang umum dilakukan dalam perancangan dan pengembangan sistem, seperti studi pendahuluan, perancangan sistem, desain database, coding sistem, testing, dan implementasi sistem.Bagian terakhir dari tulisan ini adalah membahas tentang SDM yang dapat dilibatkan dalam perancangan dan pengembangan sistem yaitu System Analyst, Database engineer, Software Engineer, dan Programmer.