This paper aims to understand how software developers experience the continuous adaptation of performance in a modern, highly volatile environment using Lean and Agile software development methodology and generates a grounded theory, Performance Alignment Work, showing howSoftware developers experience performance.
Fabian Fagerholm, Marko Ikonen, Petri Kettunen et al.· Information and Software Tec...· 89 citations· ⚡5
This paper aims contributing to this gap by studying the artistic design flow and the tools utilized by architects, industrial designers and artists, and proposes concrete ways to improve the current state-of-practice.
Juhani Risku, P. Abrahamsson· International Conference on...· 2 citations
The need for agile methods in the focal domain is presented, their shortcomings are identified on the basis of three large-scale case studies from industry and all of the cases deal with the development of mobile information system.
P. Abrahamsson· International Conference on...· 28 citations· ⚡1
The results show that the effect of TDD on program design was not as evident as expected, but the test coverage was significantly superior to iterative test-last development.
Maria Siniaalto, P. Abrahamsson· International Symposium on E...· 55 citations· ⚡5
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P. Abrahamsson, Jürgen Münch, P. Kuvaja· Software Process: Improvemen...· 4 citations
Log messages are proposed to be used to predict failures running devices that read log files of running application and warns about the likely failure of the system; the prediction is based on the Cox Proportional Hazards (PH) model that has been applied successfully in various fields of research.
P. Abrahamsson, I. Fronza, Jelena Vlasenko· International Conference on...· 1 citation
A comprehensive taxonomy of the challenges faced when a medium-scale organization decided to adopt software platforms is provided, namely: business challenges, organizational challenges, technical challenges, and people challenges.
Yaser Ghanam, F. Maurer, P. Abrahamsson· Information and Software Tec...· 41 citations· ⚡3
The Implications of a Complexity Perspective for Software Engineering Practice and Research suggests that large software companies that enjoyed success in the past find themselves in increasing difficulties in today's turbulent business environments.
Juha Rikkila, P. Abrahamsson, Xiaofeng Wang· Journal of Computer Engineer...· 9 citations
Three preliminary findings are obtained: walking can lead to an effective idea generation session; brainstorming while walking can encourage team members to participate in and contribute to the session in an equal manner; and it can help a team to maintain sustainable mental energy.
Xiaofeng Wang, D. Graziotin, Juha Rikkilä et al.· arXiv.org· 1 citation
SEMAT Accelerator (SematAcc) is a Web-positioning tool for a software engineering endeavor, which implements the SEMAT’s Essence kernel, and permits the use of Essence, thus helping to understand it.
D. Graziotin, P. Abrahamsson· arXiv.org· 33 citations· ⚡2
An empirical study on the impact of affective states on software developers’ performance while programming and the value of applying psychometrics in Software Engineering studies is demonstrated and a call to valorize the human, individualized aspects of software developers is echoed.
D. Graziotin, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson· International Conference on...· 55 citations· ⚡4
An approach and an associated tool to automate feature identification for web applications are presented and it is indicated that there is a good potential for automating feature identification in web applications.
Sarunas Marciuska, Çigdem Gencel, P. Abrahamsson· International Conference on...· 11 citations
AI agents can generate code at a scale that’s hard for humans to review line-by-line. PDD Kit helps ensure the code is doing what the developer intended by creating formal specifications and testing against them. It converts developer intent into a Verus specification, proves AI-generated code meets it for every input, and uses tests where proofs aren't practical. Developers review intent, not every line. The post Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit appeared first o…
Is your company’s AI sovereign? A practical guide for CIOs on AI vendor lock-in, EU Data Act switching, cloud sovereignty, and testing your exit plan before you need it. The post Sovereignty Is the Option to Leave appeared first on GPT-Lab.
Microsoft Research Blog· microsoft.comOct 30, 2026
Evaluating Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale requires test data that captures the full complexity of real organizations, yet real enterprise data contains sensitive information that cannot be used for evaluation under any circumstances. The post From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence appeared first on Microsoft Research.
Microsoft Research Blog· microsoft.comOct 29, 2026
Host Sowbhagya Suresh shares some of the latest news and cutting-edge research from across Microsoft—from understanding the challenges facing coding agents to uncovering how people use AI at work and improving extended-range weather forecasting. The post Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #97 appeared first on Microsoft Research.
