Thu 7 Dec 2023 12:23 - 12:30 at Golden Gate A - Human Aspects III Chair(s): Tien N. Nguyen

As one of the next frontiers of software engineering, agile development at scale has attracted more and more research interests and efforts. When following the existing autonomy-focused and goal-driven lessons and guidelines to scale agile development for a large astronomy project, however, we encountered surprising tech stack sprawl and spreading team coordination issues. By revisiting the unique features of our project (e.g., the data processing-intensive nature and the frequent team member changes), and by identifying a fractal pattern from various data processing logic and processes, we defined disciplined agile teams to clone the best practices of pioneer agile teams, and to work on similar system modules with similar user stories. Such a targeted strategy effectively relieved the tech stack sprawl and facilitated teamwork handover, at least for refactoring and growing the data processing modules in our project. Based on this emerging result and our reflections, we distinguish this targeted strategy as scaling out agile development from the existing agile scaling approaches that are generally in a scaling-up fashion. Considering the popularity of data processing-intensive projects, and also considering the pervasive fractal patterns in modern businesses and organisations, we claim that this targeted strategy still has broad application opportunities. Therefore, developing a well-defined methodology for scaling out agility, and combining both scaling up and scaling out agility, will deserve attentions and new research efforts in the future.

Thu 7 Dec

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11:00 - 12:30
Human Aspects IIIResearch Papers / Industry Papers / Demonstrations / Journal First at Golden Gate A
Chair(s): Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas
11:00
15m
Talk
A Case Study of Developer Bots: Motivations, Perceptions, and Challenges
Research Papers
Sumit Asthana University of Michigan, Hitesh Sajnani The Trade Desk, Elena Voyloshnikova Microsoft, Birendra Acharya Microsoft, Kim Herzig Microsoft
Media Attached
11:15
15m
Talk
"We Feel Like We're Winging It": A Study on Navigating Open-Source Dependency Abandonment
Research Papers
Courtney Miller Carnegie Mellon University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print Media Attached
11:30
15m
Talk
How Practitioners Expect Code Completion?
Research Papers
Chaozheng Wang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Junhao Hu Peking University, Cuiyun Gao The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yu Jin Tencent Inc., Tao Xie Peking University, Hailiang Huang Tencent Inc., Zhenyu Lei Tencent Inc., Yuetang Deng Tencent Inc.
Media Attached
11:45
15m
Talk
BFSig: Leveraging File Significance in Bus Factor Estimation
Industry Papers
Vahid Haratian Bilkent University, Mikhail Evtikhiev JetBrains Research, Pouria Derakhshanfar JetBrains Research, Eray Tüzün Bilkent University, Vladimir Kovalenko JetBrains Research
DOI Media Attached
12:00
15m
Talk
Challenges of Working from Home in Software Development during COVID-19 Lockdowns
Journal First
Katharina Müller , Christian Koch Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm / FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Dirk Riehle U of Erlangen, Michael Stops Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Germany, Nikolay Harutyunyan Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Link to publication DOI Media Attached
12:15
7m
Talk
D2S2: Drag ’n’ Drop Mobile App Screen Search
Demonstrations
Soumik Mohian University of Texas at Arlington, Tony Tang University of Texas at Arlington, Tuan Trinh University of Texas at Arlington, Don Dang University of Texas at Arlington, Christoph Csallner University of Texas at Arlington
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12:23
7m
Talk
[Remote] The Most Agile Teams Are the Most Disciplined: On Scaling out Agile Development
Industry Papers
Zheng Li Queen's University Belfast, UK, Austen Rainer Queen's University Belfast
DOI Media Attached