How do users talk about software: problem and first research ideas
Developers have their language to talk about software in terms of code or e.g. UML-design models. But how do users talk about software? Is there a common language to talk about the features of a software? This question is getting more and more important in social media discussions about software such as app store reviews. Product managers want to rely on the utterances of users and use machine learning to investigate them.
In this talk we present our work on mining and managing features which led us to the conclusion that we should research into a common user language. We will present first ideas on how to perform qualitative research on this topic.
22/05/2019 13:00
Software Systems
Barbara Paech holds the chair "Software Engineering" at the Heidelberg University. Her teaching and research focuses on methods and processes to ensure quality of software with adequate effort. Since many years she is particularly active in the area of requirements, rational and quality engineering. Based on her experiences as department head at the Fraunhofer Institute Experimental Software Engineering her research is often empirical and in close cooperation with industry. She has headed several industrial, national and international research and transfer projects and has served several functions (including invited talks, program co-chair, steering committee member) at well-known requirements-engineering events such as RE or REFSQ. She was spokeswoman of the section “Software Engineering” in the German computer science society for 6 years and is founding member of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB). Since 2016 she heads the advisory board of study affairs of the representation of German Computer Science study programs “Fakultätentag Informatik”, She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München (1990) and a Habilitation in Computer Science from the Technical Universität München (1998). Web-site: http://se.ifi.uni-heidelberg.de/
