Tag: Engineering Thesis

Abstract: Poor requirements management is one of the primary reasons for project failure. Managing and tracing of requirements involve additional effort for the developers. The tracing of requirements involves the creation of links between requirements and source code files. These links are als...

Abstract:  Inner Source is a software development approach that uses open source practices within an organization. The Collaboration Management Suite (CMSuite) developed by the Open Source Research Group at the Friedrich-Alexander Unversity Erlangen-Nürnberg supports the analysis and visualizat...

Abstract:  "Inner source" is the application of open source methods within a company's boundaries (Capraro & Riehle, 2017; Riehle, Capraro, Kips & Horn, 2016). Every employee is able to access and contribute to any software component developed within that company. This creates an open s...

Abstract: Since mid 2017 the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) has been obligated to provide its weather data to the public for free. However, anyone who wants to access it needs to click through a file system hoping to still be on the right path to the desired weather data. Due to confusing folder names...

Abstract: Offline usage is a great advantage for the web apps. It gives the opportunity to interact with the app without the need of constantly having the network connection. After network recovery the app synchronizes the collected offline data with the backend data. However, when the synchronized ...

Abstract: Components are fundamental building blocks in software engineering. Modern day software products are often a complex composition of many components from entirely different vendors. Some are proprietary software, while others are open source components. The reuse of open source compone...

Abstract:  Gitlab is an Software forge with integrated Continuous Integration (CI) and DevOps features under the MIT license for the non commercial version. As Gitlab is broadly used for inner source software development it is important to be able to measure code collaboration within existing e...

Abstract: "A world in which consuming open data is easy and safe.“ This is the vision of the JValue Open Data Service (ODS) that aims to bundle finding the right open data, using and combining it into an easy and intuitive process. The daily life of developers should be free from hardships, like wri...

Abstract:  A wide spread concept of minimizing expenditure is automation, which is often applied in software development. Especially working with agile priciples based on rapid feedback, short productioncyles and frequent changes requires an automated development. Through an central instance th...

Abstract:  "Inner source (IS) is the use of open source software development (SD) practices and the establishment of an open source-like culture within an organization." (Capraro & Riehle, 2016) However, it is currently impossible for an individual manager of an organization to account for ...