ABOUT

Software quality is strongly influenced by human and social factors. From the perspective of users, human and psychological factors influence how quality is understood and perceived. What qualities are important depends on both objective and subjective assessments by users. On other hand, the extent to which important qualities are achieved depends crucially on human and psychological factors among software development professionals, including requirements engineers, software architects, software developers, software testers, and people working in other roles during the software life-cycle. An understanding of how human factors play into the interpretation and realisation of quality on both the sides of software use and development is important to advance the field towards better software.

TOPICS

This track is open to a wide range of topics related to quality aspects of human factors, including, but not limited to:

• Modelling software quality from a psychological perspective.

• Decision-making in the software quality process.

• Awareness of quality concerns among software practitioners.

• Human, social, cultural, cognitive, and affective factors related to software quality.

• Methodological questions of researching quality aspects of human factors.

• Empirical studies examining software quality from a human factors perspective.

• Novel methods and approaches for enhancing software quality through improvement of software development work systems.

TRACK COMMITTEE

Chair:  

Maria Teresa Baldassarre, University of Bari, Italy 

Fabian Fagerholm, Aalto University, Finland

Mary Sánchez-Gordón, Østfold University College, Norway 

Franz Zieris, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden 

Tamara Lopez, The Open University, Germany 

Farnaz Fotrousi, Mälardalen University, Sweden

Káthia Marçal de Oliveira, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France 

Sherlock Licorish, Univerisity of Otago, New Zealand 

Davide Fucci, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden 

Tanjila Kanij, Monash University, Australia 

Domenico Gigante, Università degli Studi di Bari "A. Moro", Italy 

Sanjay Misra, Østfold University, Norway