Davide Fucci

The Effect of Noise on Sofware Engineers' Performance

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Background: Noise, defined as an unwanted sound, is one of the commonest factors that could affect people's performance in their daily work activities. The software engineering research community has marginally investigated the effects of noise …

Towards a Holistic Definition of Requirements Debt

2019

When not appropriately managed, technical debt is considered to have negative effects to the long term success of software projects. However, how the debt metaphor applies to requirements engineering in general, and to requirements engineering …

Results from a Replicated Experiment on the Affective Reactions of Novice Developers When Applying Test-Driven Development

2020 · Lecture notes in business information processing

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an incremental approach to software development. Despite it is claimed to improve both quality of software and developers’ productivity, the research on the claimed effects of TDD has so far shown …

On the Effect of Noise on Software Engineers’ Performance: Results from Two Replicated Experiments

2020

Noise, defined as an unwanted sound, is one of the most common factors people have to deal with when performing their daily working tasks. Researchers have marginally investigated the effect of noise on software engineers' …

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 …

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. …

ThreMoLIA: Threat Modeling of Large Language Model-Integrated Applications

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently being integrated into industrial software applications to help users perform more complex tasks in less time. However, these LLM-Integrated Applications (LIA) expand the attack surface and introduce new kinds …

Experience Report on the Adaptable Integration of Requirements Engineering Courses into Curricula for Professionals

2026 · Diva portal (Dalarna University Library)

There is a growing demand for software engineering education (SEE) for professionals because of the increasing demand, active evolution of the technological landscape, and changes in the skills required by the practice. Integrating requirements engineering …