Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 3. Research and Teaching

Using students as a distributed coding team for validation through intercoder agreement [Technical Report]

Abstract In qualitative research, results often emerge through an analysis process called coding. A common measure of validity of theories built through qualitative research is the agreement between different people coding the same materials. High intercoder agreement indicates that the findings are derived from the data as opposed to being relative results based on the…

2016-06-08
Call for papers: OpenSym 2016, the 12th International Symposium on Open Collaboration

OpenSym 2016, the 12th International Symposium on Open Collaboration August 17-19, 2016 | Berlin, Germany http://opensym.org/os2016 About the conference The 12th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2016) is the premier conference on open collaboration research and practice, including open source, open data, open education, wikis and related social media, Wikipedia, and IT-driven open innovation…

2015-11-16
Call for papers: The 12th international conference on open source systems (OSS 2016)

The 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems Gothenburg, Sweden, 30 May – 02 June 2016 Scope of OSS 2016 Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has had a disruptive effect on the software industry and the ways that organizations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. The FLOSS movement has created…

2015-11-10
Call for papers: Continuous software engineering 2016 (workshop at SE 2016)

In order to develop and deliver high-quality products to their customers, software companies have to adopt state-of-the-art software development processes. To face this challenge, companies are applying innovative methods, approaches and techniques like agile methods, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, test automation, infrastructure as code or container-based virtualization. These new approaches have a high impact on the…

2015-10-28
Only four more weeks until OSS 2015!

Only four more weeks until OSS 2015, the 11th international conference on open source systems! Co-located with ICSE 2015, no less. You can expect a program of leading open source research and invited talks from industry and academia that will challenge your thinking! Sign up now through the ICSE registration website.

2015-04-22
Improving traceability of requirements through qualitative data analysis [SE 2015]

Abstract Traceability is an important quality aspect in modern software development. It facilitates the documentation of decisions and helps identifying conflicts regarding the conformity of one artifact to another. We propose a new approach to requirements engineering that utilizes qualitative research methods, which have been well established in the domain of social science. Our approach…

2015-03-04