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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automates IT infrastructure deployment, which is particularly beneficial for continuous releases, for instance, in the context of microservices and cloud systems. Despite its flexibility in application architecture, ...

Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) are an efficient means to counter accidental complexity and are therefore a key technology for Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). Despite DSLs' potential, there is a lack of empirical research regarding the practical effects ...

Recently, large language models (LLM) based generative AI has been gaining momentum for their impressive high-quality performances in multiple domains, particularly after the release of the ChatGPT. Many believe that they have the potential to perform ...

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Breaking new ground in crisis management, our study unveils the game-changing power of social media for community leaders. Scrutinizing social media posts from U.S. governors and supported by controlled experiments, we’ve delivered ...

When managing major disasters, authorities may ask residents to comply with certain guidelines that change community members’ daily routines. In these situations, authorities often appeal to resilience, which refers to the ability to recover from ...

The term technical debt (TD) describes the aggregation of sub-optimal solutions that serve to impede the evolution and maintenance of a system. Some claim that the broken windows theory (BWT), a concept borrowed from criminology, also ...

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 ...

Folk-wisdom in software engineering suggests that small functions that adhere to the principle of single-responsibility have several advantages over longer, monolithic functions, including improvement in code comprehension. Despite this widespread view, ...

Context: Application Programming Interface (API) code examples are an essential knowledge resource for learning APIs. However, a few user studies have explored how the structural characteristics of the source code in code examples impact their ...

[Background]: Slicing has been first introduced to support debugging as a fault localization technique. Yet, program slicing as support for identifying vulnerabilities during code inspection has received limited attention. [Aims]: Evaluate the ...

Developers frequently use the web to locate API examples that help them solve their programming tasks. While sites like Stack Overflow (SO) contain API examples embedded within their textual descriptions, developers cannot access this API knowledge ...

AI's pervasive role in various fields highlights the imperative for the workforce to adeptly leverage its potential. While numerous courses cater to developers, there exists a discernible void for the wider community of AI users. To address this, our ...

Interestingly, the interactions between members of a social group and across people of different social groups often happen through mutual understanding and reciprocate behaviour by means of gestures or eye contact. A controlled laboratory experiment is ...

Widespread climate change engagement is needed to confront our current environmental crises, but it remains difficult to attain. Methods such as visualizations and experiential learning activities, including games and gamification, have been proposed to ...

Web APIs are one of the most used ways to expose application functionality on the Web, and their understandability is important for efficiently using the provided resources. While many API design rules exist, empirical evidence for the ...

Distributed application developers typically use resiliency patterns like Retry, Circuit Breaker, and Fail Fast for handling remote service failures. However, limited research exists on how these patterns may impact performance across various ...

This paper discusses the challenges in evaluating the quality of conceptual models in educational settings. While automated grading techniques may work for simplistic modeling tasks, realistic modeling tasks that allow for a wide variety of solutions ...

Model inspections are important to ensure high‐quality software and to satisfy legal obligations in model‐based engineering processes. As model‐based specifications are typically documented on type‐level, errors concerning the interactions between ...

This paper contributes a definition of instance‐level review diagrams in message sequence charts notation and reports results of a controlled experiment to evaluate instance‐level review diagrams. Results show that instance‐level review models support the ...

Domain models in software engineering—often represented as class diagrams—depict relevant classes in a given problem domain along with necessary relationships among those classes. These models are important because they establish links between the ...

Previous work has shown that increased effort and use of one’s body can improve memory. When positioning windows inside a virtual reality, does the use of a larger volume, and using one’s legs to move around, improve ability to later find the windows? ...

Adaptive Systems (ASs) are able to monitor their own behavior and adapt it when quality goals are not accomplished. MAPE-K is a reference model that provides abstractions to design ASs. Structuring such systems with these abstractions brings many ...