4 Theses

Abstract: Thanks to the collected data by providers like Ohloh, research on open source software has become both easier and popular. Ohloh is offering access to its database containing most of the statistically relevant information collected by Ohloh from publicly available version control syst...

Abstract: This study presents a business case about the challenges that Nokia had during developing the Multimedia Message Services. At the end of 90s, Nokia was planning to make a big difference in telecommunication market with a new handset which is capable of sending and receiving multimedia...

Abstract: In the social sciences the process of interview analysis is often performed as a form of qualitative data analysis (QDA), to extract relevant information from transcribed interviews. A researcher performing such an analysis is usually assisted by Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis...

Abstract: To continuously build, test and deploy the “JDownloader” (JD) download manager code base, the team has been using Continuous Deployment principles for several months. The time frame from a source code change to a new release was radically reduced from hours to several minutes. JD’s ma...

Our group supports students who would like to go abroad for a final thesis. We maintain close connections with Asian Universities in China, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, as well as with Oceanian Universities in Australia and New Zealand. We also maintain close connections with several American Universiti...

Abstract: The concept of competencies started to grow over the last years and has now arrived in the fast growing field of Free/Libre/Open Source software development (FLOSS). Competencies have been defined, which are necessary for an successful career as an FLOSS developer and also became impo...

Abstract: Global software development projects are rapidly increasing due to the globalization of the software industry. However, 69% of cross-regional projects fail completely or partially, because of the lack of cross cultural understanding. This thesis presents a qualitative study of the impact o...

Our group maintains close connections with professors from Beijing-based Universities (Peking University, Tsinghua University), Hong Kong-based Universities (HK University of Science and Technology, City University of HK), and MMU (Multimedia University, Malaysia). While no easy exchange program exi...

Abstract: Issue tracking systems of open source software projects deliver manifold insights to the regarding projects. Due to the huge diversity in the format and structure of the different issue tracker product’s data, performing a large-scale empirical analysis to derive these insights is not...

Abstract: The importance of shared understanding and unambiguity in specifying system requirements is widely acknowledged. This work presents a case study, written in the form of a Harvard Business Case, which traces the steps of a young start-up in their attempt to build a web shop system for ...