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
Release Early, Release Often, and Watch Your Users' Emotions: Lessons From Emotional Patterns (Martens and Maalej; published in IEEE Software, Volume 36, 2019) App stores are highly competitive markets, and unexpected app changes might incite even loyal users to explore alternative apps. Initially developed for marketing and political-opinion mining, sentiment analysis became popular in many domains, including software engineering. Mining emotional sentiment has been used, for example, to guide developer discussions or summarize users’ opinions on app features. Sentiment-analysis tools use natural language processing to extract emotions from text messages. In this article, we present five release lessons, from emotional patterns identified using sentiment analysis tools, to assist app vendors maintain positive emotions and gain competitive advantages. Read more...
MAST@RE19 – Best Poster and Tool award, Paper presentations, workshop organization
Highlights Six MAST members attended RE19 1 full paper, 1 workshop paper, 2 Poster and Tool demos AffectRE workshop organization Best Tool and Demo award Paper Presentations Six members of the MAST team attended the 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference RE19 (Sept. 23rd –Read more…
2nd Hamburg RE Symposium – a Recap
In collaboration with HITeC, OpenReq and Iteratec, we organized the 2nd Hamburg Requirements Engineering Symposium on September 4th, 2019. This event gathered 65 participants from industry and academia to discuss the state-of-the-art in RE, particularly applying Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to Requirements Engineering andRead more…
Our staff volunteer to organize Pint of Science 2019
Pint of Science is an international non-profit organisation that aims to deliver interesting and relevant talks on novel research being conducted in cities all around the world. Every year, thousands of researchers across 400 cities and 24 countries share their discovers with interested people inRead more…
The SEmotion workshop will take place for the fourth time at ICSE 2019
The SEmotion workshop focuses on topics at the intersection of affective computing and software engineering. Affective states such as personality traits, attitudes, moods, and emotions play a crucial role for developers performance as well as for the success of their product. For example, several softwareRead more…
MAST @ Tag des Wissens
Daniel Martens, Marlo Häring, and Christoph Stanik represented MAST, Forum 4.0, OpenDataStudio, and OpenReq at the Tag des Wissens—a public event at which researchers present and discuss their work with interested citizens. Under the theme “Technik und Digitale Welten” (Technology and Digital Worlds), the event tookRead more…
