How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration

[EN] In industry, software projects might span over decades, with many engineers joining or leaving the company over time. In these circumstances, no single engineer has all of the knowledge when maintenance tasks such as Traceability Link Recovery (TLR), Bug Localization (BL), and Feature Location...

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Autores: Pérez, Francisca, Cetina Englada, Carlos, Lapeña, Raúl, Marcén, Ana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/213325
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Model-driven engineering
Search-based software engineering
Collaborative software engineering
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spelling How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for CollaborationPérez, FranciscaCetina Englada, CarlosLapeña, RaúlMarcén, AnaModel-driven engineeringSearch-based software engineeringCollaborative software engineeringLENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS[EN] In industry, software projects might span over decades, with many engineers joining or leaving the company over time. In these circumstances, no single engineer has all of the knowledge when maintenance tasks such as Traceability Link Recovery (TLR), Bug Localization (BL), and Feature Location (FL) are performed. Thus, collaboration has the potential to boost the quality of maintenance tasks since the solution advanced by one engineer might be enhanced with contributions from other engineers. However, assembling a team of software engineers to collaborate may not be as intuitive as we might think. In the context of a worldwide industrial supplier of railway solutions, this work evaluates how the quality of TLR, BL, and FL is affected by the criteria for selecting engineers for collaboration. The criteria for collaboration are based on engineers' profile information to select the set of search queries that are involved in the maintenance task. Collaboration is achieved by applying automatic query reformulation, and the location relies on an evolutionary algorithm. Our work uncovers how software engineers who might be seen as not being relevant in the collaboration can lead to significantly better results. A focus group confirmed the relevance of the findings.This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) through the Spanish National R+D+i Plan and ERDF funds under the Project VARIATIVA under grant no. PID2021-128695OB-I00, and in part by the Gobierno de Aragon (Spain) (Research Group S05_20D).Association for Computing MachineryDepartamento de Sistemas Informáticos y ComputaciónEscuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería InformáticaInstituto Universitario Valenciano de Investigación en Inteligencia ArtificialGobierno de AragónAgencia Estatal de InvestigaciónRepositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20232023-07-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/213325reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)InglésengAgencia Estatal de Investigación http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023 PID2021-128695OB-I00 INICIANDO LINEAS DE PRODUCTO SOFTWARE MEDIANTE BUSQUEDAS INTERACTIVAS DIRIGIDAS POR MODELOSGobierno de Aragón http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010067 Research Group S05 20Dopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reserva de todos los derechoshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/2133252026-06-13T07:49:27Z
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title How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration
spellingShingle How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration
Pérez, Francisca
Model-driven engineering
Search-based software engineering
Collaborative software engineering
LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS
title_short How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration
title_full How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration
title_fullStr How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration
title_full_unstemmed How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration
title_sort How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pérez, Francisca
Cetina Englada, Carlos
Lapeña, Raúl
Marcén, Ana
author Pérez, Francisca
author_facet Pérez, Francisca
Cetina Englada, Carlos
Lapeña, Raúl
Marcén, Ana
author_role author
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Lapeña, Raúl
Marcén, Ana
author2_role author
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author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática
Instituto Universitario Valenciano de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial
Gobierno de Aragón
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Model-driven engineering
Search-based software engineering
Collaborative software engineering
LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS
topic Model-driven engineering
Search-based software engineering
Collaborative software engineering
LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS
description [EN] In industry, software projects might span over decades, with many engineers joining or leaving the company over time. In these circumstances, no single engineer has all of the knowledge when maintenance tasks such as Traceability Link Recovery (TLR), Bug Localization (BL), and Feature Location (FL) are performed. Thus, collaboration has the potential to boost the quality of maintenance tasks since the solution advanced by one engineer might be enhanced with contributions from other engineers. However, assembling a team of software engineers to collaborate may not be as intuitive as we might think. In the context of a worldwide industrial supplier of railway solutions, this work evaluates how the quality of TLR, BL, and FL is affected by the criteria for selecting engineers for collaboration. The criteria for collaboration are based on engineers' profile information to select the set of search queries that are involved in the maintenance task. Collaboration is achieved by applying automatic query reformulation, and the location relies on an evolutionary algorithm. Our work uncovers how software engineers who might be seen as not being relevant in the collaboration can lead to significantly better results. A focus group confirmed the relevance of the findings.
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