EASE 2023
Tue 13 - Fri 16 June 2023 Oulu, Finland
Fri 16 Jun 2023 11:30 - 12:00 at Merikoski Hall - Doctoral Symposium

Requirements Engineering (RE) and Software Testing (ST) phases are essential to software development. Acknowledging the emergence of cognitive biases, systematic divergences from optimum decision-making, is crucial in software development because of the extensive human participation in various roles. How information is presented can impact decision-making, known as the framing effect—a cognitive bias. The framing effect hinders creativity in software design during the requirements phase. This cognitive effect may further lead to another bias —confirmation bias— in ST. Confirmation bias in ST is testing requirements-consistent behaviors instead of requirements-inconsistent ones. This research explores the effects of framing software requirements on the manifestation of confirmation bias during testing. Additionally, the work aims to propose mitigation strategies, referred to as debiasing, for framing and confirmation bias in the context of ST. This work employs both quantitative and qualitative empirical methods to address its aims. Hence, this research will explore the relation between the framing of requirements and the confirmation bias during ST. Furthermore, this research will also develop debiasing techniques to mitigate the negative effects of these biases to improve software quality.

Investigating the Relation between Requirements Framing and Confirmation Bias in Testing (Investigating the Relation between Requirements Framing and Confirmation Bias in Testing.pptx)4.47MiB

Fri 16 Jun

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09:00 - 17:00
10:20
10m
Social Event
Welcome
Doctoral Symposium

10:30
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
Reengineering legacy document information systems: Challenges and solutions
Doctoral Symposium
Delfina Ramos-Vidal University of A Coruña, S: Barbara Russo Free University of Bolzano, S: Rahul Mohanani University of Jyväskylä
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11:00
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
Towards a User-centred Security Framework for Social Robots in Public Spaces
Doctoral Symposium
Samson Oruma Department of Computer Science and Communication, Østfold University College, Halden, Norway., S: Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology, S: Barbara Russo Free University of Bolzano
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11:30
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
Investigating the Relation between Requirements Framing and Confirmation Bias in Testing
Doctoral Symposium
Afsarah Jahin M3S research Unit, Faculty of ITEE, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, S: Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology, Oscar Dieste Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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12:00
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

13:30
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
Automatic Data-Driven Software Change Identification via Code Representation Learning
Doctoral Symposium
Tjaša Heričko University of Maribor, S: Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology, S: Iflaah Salman Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT)
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14:00
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
Software Architecture Design of a Serverless System
Doctoral Symposium
Muhammad Hamza Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT), S: Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology, S: Rahul Mohanani University of Jyväskylä
14:30
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
Analyzing Maintenance Activities of Software Libraries
Doctoral Symposium
Alexandros Tsakpinis fortiss GmbH, S: Kai Petersen University of Applied Sciences Flensburg, Germany / Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, S: Iflaah Salman Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT)
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15:00
30m
Coffee break
Coffee Break
Catering

15:30
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
Effective Agile Contracts Framework for Software Innovation Projects
Doctoral Symposium
Adriano Gomes UFPE, S: Efraín R. Fonseca C. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, S: Kai Petersen University of Applied Sciences Flensburg, Germany / Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
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16:00
30m
Talk
Wrap-up
Doctoral Symposium