4.3 Finished Theses

Abstract: The success of every software project is determined to no small degree by the license under which its creator chooses to publish the software. Free/libre open source software has made free sharing of software and code reuse much easier but has also made the business of software licensing f...

Abstract: Domain knowledge is a widely used but seldom defined term in research. Since every research project is located in at least one dedicated domain, its influence to the research work seems to be natural but is not investigated, especially not for qualitative research. An exploratory study was...

Abstract: Mature requirements engineering is one of the key success factors of professional software development. This thesis proposes an approach that adapts core principles of qualitative data analysis, which is well established in social science, and transforms them into a holistic method for req...

Abstract: Open source software nowadays is increasingly used outside its own ecosystem. It is used by governmental departments and companies, for commercial projects and as a part of critical infrastructure, like encryption libraries. This usually makes it necessary to increase the collaboration wit...

Abstract: In the industrial domain, software development is a highly collaborative work involving different contributing teams. But there is not yet a way to quantify the collaboration between organizational units within a software developing company. However, information about this collaboration is...

Abstract: Most wikis today use text blobs written in a wiki markup dialect to store and work with articles. We have developed a formal parser that produces a rich tree-based format of wiki content, called Wiki Object Model (WOM). Around this format we’ve implemented a rudimentary Wiki software and a...

Abstract: Wahlzeit is an open source Java web application that gives you a solid software base to set up your own photo rating website. Besides that, it is used during the lecture Advanced Design and Programming to teach agile methods and open source software development. In addition to the software...

Abstract: Technical debt is a metaphor to describe the trade of quality for short term goals. It is used to discuss the effects of short term goals on quality and productivity thereafter. While most research on technical debt is based on code metrics or qualitative investigations, this thesis explor...

Abstract: The Sweble Engine is a wiki software built around the powerful "wiki object model" (WOM), which represents the full state of the wiki. This thesis adds scripting support to Sweble so that scripts embedded in a wiki page, can manipulate the WOM and hence the state of the wiki. The focus of ...

Abstract: One of the key factors of the success of professional software development is mature requirements engineering. This thesis focuses on the elicitation and analysis of requirements and addresses the process steps between the elicitation of requirements and the gathering of the system require...