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...
M-Lab App presented at the Press Conference of State
Hamburg’s State Minister of Science, Research and Equality Katharina Fegebank presented together with Prof. Maalej and Daniel Martens from our research department the new science app “Hafen der Wissenschaft” at the State Press conference. The app is dedicated to all citizens interested in science. TheRead more…
Prof. Maalej selected as PC Co-Chair of IEEE RE’18
Prof. Walid Maalej is program co-chair of the 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’18). Further, the conference chairs include Prof. Daniel Amyot (program co-chair) and Dr. Guenther Ruhe (general chair). The RE’18 conference will be held from 20 to 24 August 2018 at the world famous Banff center in Alberta,Read more…
Get Ready for the Doctoral Camp 2017
Today it’s time to leave the Informatikum for our yearly Doctoral Camp 2017. For three days the MAST research group (Prof. Maalej and his Ph.D. students) will stay in a Swedish house near a beautiful lake in Malente. Interesting talks with intensive discussions, fun-activities, BBQ, andRead more…
Media event Hamburg’s chamber of commerce
On Tuesday, June 13th, several members of our group, including Prof. Dr. Maalej, will participate in a large media event that will take place in the Hamburg chamber of commerce (Handelskammer Hamburg). Together with our partners from the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, we will presentRead more…
Hamburg Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Smart Sustainable Cities
Global warming and fast urbanization are affecting the quality of life in modern cities. Air pollution, heat, noise, and other environmental stressors are constantly harming the health and well-being of the citizens. Detailed knowledge about the environmental impacts and public resources play a significant roleRead more…
