Behavioral Science of Software Engineering

Software Engineering for Science

Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering

S oftware engineering for computational science and engineering (CSE) is a topic of increasing relevance for many scientific and engineering domains. Historically, this topic has fallen into a void among many related domains. Traditionally, software engineering (SE) research has focused more on the business/IT domain than the scientific or engineering domain. SE researchers have often made the ...

Mathematics, Computer Science, Software Engineering

This paper examines three ideas: First, the traditional relationship between a science, the mathematics it uses and the engineering based on it. Second, the nature of (software) computer science, which may not be a science at all, and its unusual use of mathematics. And finally, the nature of software engineering, its relationship with computer science, and its use of mathematics called ‘formal...

Behavioral science, engineering, and poetry revisited.

Forty years ago, Lehrman (1971) identified 2 orientations to the study of animal behavior. The natural history orientation conducted field and lab research designed to reveal how animals cope with the circumstances of their natural environment. Such research reveals the diversity among different types of animals and differences between the world of animals and the world of humans (i.e., "poetry...

Behavioral software engineering - guidelines for qualitative studies

Researchers are increasingly recognizing the importance of human aspects in software development and since qualitative methods are used to, in-depth, explore human behavior, we believe that studies using such techniques will become more common. Existing qualitative software engineering guidelines do not cover the full breadth of qualitative methods and knowledge on using them found in the socia...