When developing and managing modern, in particular mobile, software and services the only constant is change! Continuously growing complexity, new technologies, shorter release cycles, and demanding users require high flexibility, innovative ideas, adaptive & intelligent solutions, as well as the courage to challenge conventional approaches.
The mission of our team is to take up these challenges in our research projects and teaching activities. Together with our partners from industry and academia, we design, implement, and evaluate, new methods to support organizations in dealing with the technical and societal challenges of software and service engineering. We also continuously disseminate our research results in form of publications and presentations in professional events. We offer lectures, seminars, and practical courses in real projects and with real customers, and state of the art technology, following a learning by doing approach. Our students can prepare themselves for professional life, gain much theoretical and practical knowledge and have a lot of fun. Read more...
Featured Article
On the Socialness of Software - Conventional software engineering processes are rather transactional and lack a common theory for the involvement of users and their communities. Users are regarded as pure consumers, who are, at most, able to report issues. In the age of easy knowledge access and social media, discounting the users of software might threaten its success. Potentially valuable experiences and volunteered resources get lost. Frustrated users might even meet in social communities to argue against the software and harm its reputation.
The goal of this research is to revolutionize the role of users, dissolving the boundaries to software engineers. We propose a novel framework for increasing the software socialness, being the degree of user and community involvement in the software lifecycle. Our framework consists of a benchmark, a process, and a reference architecture. The benchmark includes metrics for assessing and monitoring software socialness. The process enables engineering teams to systematically gather and exploit user feedback in the software lifecycle. The context aware reference architecture integrates social media into software systems and the engineering infrastructure. It observes users’ interactions while they use the software and proactively collects in situ feedback. Read more...
Open Position: Full-Time Research Associate
You would like to pursue the challenge of doing a PhD in our Hamburg-based, internationally-recognized, highly-diverse team? With immediate effect we recruit a research associate (for full details see PDF file). The contract is initially running for three years. The position is full-time. The selected candidateRead more…
Doctoral Camp 2018
Doctoral Camp 2018! The MAST Group annual Doctoral Camp was a great success! We took time to reflect on our research, presented our latest results and future PhD plans to our peers, and enjoyed some beautiful Northern-Germany sun. This four-day event provides the opportunity to think throughRead more…
MAST @ ICSE 2018
Our research group was represented at this year’s ICSE, the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering. The conference took place from May 27 until June 03 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Dr. Davide Fucci published his work “Sensing Developers’ Emotions: The Design of a Replicated Experiment“ at the 3rd InternationalRead more…
1st Hamburg Requirements Engineering Symposium – Recap
Those that follow us already for a while know about our strong connection and contributions to the field of Requirements Engineering. With the received grant and responsibility in one of our current projects, OpenReq, and our chairholder Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej being the PC-Co Chair ofRead more…
Girls Day 2018 and M-Lab Junior
This year again MAST research group took part in Zukunftstag 2018 event, also called Girls’ Day, on our computer science campus. Yen Dieu Pham, Clara Marie Lüders, and Natalia Mannov organised the Girls’Day project M-Lab Junior (App Development). Our young app developers started the dayRead more…
