Disputation von Zijad Kurtanović am 19.04.2018, 14:00 Uhr, Raum D-220

19. April 2018, von Reinhard Zierke

Einladung zur hochschulöffentlichen Disputation von
Herrn Zijad Kurtanović

Titel der Dissertation:
Mining and Analyzing User Rationale in Software Engineering

Einladung zur hochschulöffentlichen Disputation
im Rahmen des Promotionsverfahrens von

Herrn Zijad Kurtanović

Titel der Dissertation:
Mining and Analyzing User Rationale in Software Engineering

Abstract:
Rationale refers to the reasoning and justification behind human decisions, opinions, and beliefs. In software engineering, rationale is important for capturing and documenting requirements and design decisions and consequently organizing and reusing knowledge in software organizations. While rationale knowledge typically originates from professional stakeholders (e.g. business analysts, developers, managers), nowadays there is a potential in augmenting this knowledge with the feedback of users, posted e.g. in app stores or social media.

Using a grounded theory approach and peer content analysis, this thesis empirically studies user rationale in online reviews, for example, how users explain their decisions, e.g. on upgrading, installing, or switching the application.

We found that criteria such as usability and supportability, which play an important role during requirements analysis, design, and project management, represent the most frequent user rationale concepts and are used for stance expression.

Using a diverse dataset we investigated how accurately we can automatically mine rationale, criteria, and stances.

Based on our empirical findings, we introduce and discuss the Rationalytics frame-work and two prototypes for rationale and stance mining tools for software engineer-ing projects.

Datum und Uhrzeit: Donnerstag, 19. April 2018 um 14:00 Uhr
Ort: Fachbereich Informatik, Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, Raum D-220, 22527 Hamburg
Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej

Prof. Dr. Matthias Rarey
Vorsitzender des Fach-Promotionsausschusses Informatik