When software products and services are developed and maintained over longer time, software engineering practices tend to drift away from both structured and agile methods. Nonetheless, in many cases the evolving practices are far from ad hoc or chaotic. How are the teams involved able to coordinate their joint development?This article reports on an ethnographic study of a small team at a successful provider of software as a service. What struck us was the very explicit way in which the team adopted and adapted their practices to fit the needs of the evolving development. The discussion relates the findings to the concepts of social practices and methods in software engineering, and explores the differences between degraded behavior and the coordinated evolution of development practices. The analysis helps to better understand how software engineering practices evolve, and thus provides a starting point for rethinking software engineering methods and their relation to software engineering practice.
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17:30 - 18:00 | Empirical PerspectivesResearch Papers / Visions and Reflections / Industry Papers / Paper Presentations at Virtual room 2 | ||
17:30 2mTalk | An Empirical Study of Bots in Software Development: Characteristics and Challenges from a Practitioner’s Perspective Research Papers Linda Erlenhov Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Philipp Leitner Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
17:33 1mTalk | Exploring the Evolution of Software Practices Research Papers Yvonne Dittrich IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Christian Bo Michelsen IT University of Copenhagen, Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Pernille Lous , Allan Ebdrup n.n., n.n. DOI | ||
17:35 1mTalk | Online Sports Betting through the Prism of Software Engineering Industry Papers Gvozden Marinkovic PlusPlus NT, Belgrade, Serbia, Nikola Lukic University of Southern California, Nenad Medvidović University of Southern California, USA DOI | ||
17:37 1mTalk | Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering: A Replication Research Papers Hennie Huijgens Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Ayushi Rastogi , Ernst Mulders Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Georgios Gousios Facebook & Delft University of Technology, Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology, Netherlands DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
17:39 1mTalk | Revealing the Complexity of Automotive Software Visions and Reflections Vard Antinyan Volvo Car Group DOI | ||
17:41 1mTalk | Robotics Software Engineering: A Perspective from the Service Robotics Domain Research Papers Sergio Garcia Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Daniel Strüber Radboud University Nijmegen, Davide Brugali University of Bergamo, Italy, Thorsten Berger Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Patrizio Pelliccione University of L'Aquila and Chalmers | University of Gothenburg DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
17:43 17mTalk | Conversations on Empirical Perspectives Paper Presentations Ayushi Rastogi , Linda Erlenhov Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Nenad Medvidović University of Southern California, USA, Sergio Garcia Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Yvonne Dittrich IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Vard Antinyan Volvo Car Group, M: Brittany Johnson George Mason University | ||