A digital twin improves our use of a cyber–physical system and understanding of its
emerging behavior. To this effect, a digital twin is to be developed and configured and …

Context: In any discipline, replications of empirical studies are necessary to consolidate the
acquired knowledge. In Software Engineering, replications have been reported since the …

Ensuring a production-ready state of the application under development is the imminent
feature of the Continuous Delivery (CD) approach. In a blockchain network, nodes …

Low-code development platforms (LCDPs) are becoming increasingly important in industry,
which confronts us in academic teaching with the challenge of educating students in the …

Enterprises' trend to low-code development revives model-based software engineering
(MBSE) since several low-code platforms are based on the principles of model-based …

Researchers have been evaluating the benefits of Model-Driven Development (MDD) for
more than a decade now. Although some works suggest that MDD decreases development …

Context: Recent developments in natural language processing have facilitated the adoption
of chatbots in typically collaborative software engineering tasks (such as diagram …

Context: Empirical studies with human participants (eg, controlled experiments) are
established methods in Software Engineering (SE) research to understand developers' …

Context: The usability software quality characteristic aims to improve system user
performance. In a previous study, we found evidence of the impact of a set of usability …

There is wide acknowledgement of the benefits we reap from information and
communication technology (ICT) in many facets of our lives. But there is also an increasing …