Daniel Méndez

Lessons Learnt in Conducting Survey Research

2017

Context: Surveys constitute an valuable tool to capture a large-scale snapshot of the state of the practice. Apparently trivial to adopt, surveys hide, however, several pitfalls that might hinder rendering the result valid and, thus, …

Results of the 2 ^nd International Workshop on the Impact of Agile Practices (ImpAct 2017)

2017

At present, agile development is a dominating development process in software engineering. Yet, due to different contexts, also agile methods require adaptations (e.g. Scrum-but). Since adaptation means adding, modifying or dropping some agile elements, it …

An Approach for Reviewing Security-Related Aspects in Agile Requirements Specifications of Web Applications

2019

Defects in requirements specifications can have severe consequences during the software development lifecycle. Some of them result in overall project failure due to incorrect or missing quality characteristics such as security. There are several concerns …

Security Compliance in Agile Software Development: A Systematic Mapping Study

2020

Companies adopting agile development tend to face challenges in complying with security norms. Existing research either focuses on how to integrate security into agile methods or on discussing compliance issues of agile methods but independently …

The Human Side of Software Engineering: An Investigation of Challenges.

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

There have been recent calls for research on the human side of software engineering and its impact on various factors such as productivity, developer happiness and project success. An analysis of which challenges in software …

Towards Artefact-based Requirements Engineering for Data-Centric Systems.

2021 · Diva portal (Dalarna University Library)

Many modern software-intensive systems employ artificial intelligence / machine-learning (AI/ML) components and are, thus, inherently data-centric. The behaviour of such systems depends on typically large amounts of data processed at run-Time rendering such non-deterministic systems …

A Live Extensible Ontology of Quality Factors for Textual Requirements

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Quality factors like passive voice or sentence length are commonly used in research and practice to evaluate the quality of natural language requirements since they indicate defects in requirements artifacts that potentially propagate to later …

Taxing Collaborative Software Engineering: The Challenges for Tax Compliance in Software Engineering

2023 · IEEE Software

The engineering of complex software systems is often the result of a highly collaborative effort. However, collaboration within a multinational enterprise has an overlooked legal implication when developers collaborate across national borders: It is taxable. …

A Second Look at the Impact of Passive Voice Requirements on Domain Modeling: Bayesian Reanalysis of an Experiment

2024

The quality of requirements specifications may impact subsequent, dependent software engineering (SE) activities. However, empirical evidence of this impact remains scarce and too often superficial as studies abstract from the phenomena under investigation too much. …

Prompts as Software Engineering Artifacts: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Developers now routinely interact with large language models (LLMs) to support a range of software engineering (SE) tasks. This prominent role positions prompts as potential SE artifacts that, like other artifacts, may require systematic development, …