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 the 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 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 human factors for quality software, 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 human factors for quality software.

• 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.

• Impact of AI on human factors for quality software;

• Impact of developers’ well-being and team “health” for producing quality software (work-life balance, burnout prevention, stress management, team morale, hybrid work etc.).

TRACK COMMITTEE

Chair:  Rodrigo Santos (UNIRIO, Brazil) and Xiaofeng Wang (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

Program Committee: 

• Daniela Cruzes, NTNU, Norway

• Davi Viana, Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil

• Emitza Guzman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

• Helena Olsson, University of Malmo, Sweden

• Jürgen Münch, Reutlingen University, Germany

• Jorge Melegati, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

• Letizia Jaccheri, NTNU, Norway,

• Mary Sánchez-Gordón, Østfold University College, Norway 

• Pablo Oliveira Antonino, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany

• Sergio Rico, Mid Sweden University, Sweden