Correct and complete context for software engineering requires domain modeling. Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT/IDEF0) is a proven way to model any kind of domain. This talk explains how SADT/IDEF0 domain modeling can bring correct and complete domain knowledge, including all required context, to today’s commonplace disciplines of Agile System Development, Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodology, and Usability Engineering methods.
Slides from the talk "Model-Driven Engineering: a first glance at a ¿new? way of conceiving software development". Summer course on "Data Management". University of Santander (Spain), July 2011)
The Agile Gap: Closing it with User Experiencekalebwalton
Agile is missing something. Stories and epics are focused on self-contained iterations but its not always clear how everything is supposed to fit together - what does the final user experience look and feel like? This gap in Agile is significant because the final user experience is how the customer determines value - is it efficient, effective, and satisfactory? Consider filling the gap with scenarios. Scenarios blend well with Agile by allowing the generation of iteration-level user stories but also make it very clear what is the desired user experience and value proposition. This session describes how UX professionals not only have the expertise but are uniquely positioned to develop and drive these scenarios, in turn making themselves an essential part of the Agile process.
Slides from the talk "Model-Driven Engineering: a first glance at a ¿new? way of conceiving software development". Summer course on "Data Management". University of Santander (Spain), July 2011)
The Agile Gap: Closing it with User Experiencekalebwalton
Agile is missing something. Stories and epics are focused on self-contained iterations but its not always clear how everything is supposed to fit together - what does the final user experience look and feel like? This gap in Agile is significant because the final user experience is how the customer determines value - is it efficient, effective, and satisfactory? Consider filling the gap with scenarios. Scenarios blend well with Agile by allowing the generation of iteration-level user stories but also make it very clear what is the desired user experience and value proposition. This session describes how UX professionals not only have the expertise but are uniquely positioned to develop and drive these scenarios, in turn making themselves an essential part of the Agile process.
User Interface Prototyping - Low- and High-Fidelity Prototyping TodayThomas Memmel
Zühlke offers various usability engineering services – get in touch at www.zuehlke.com/usability
User Studies, User Profiling & User Modeling (e.g. Personas), User-Centered Requirements Engineering, Usability Concepts & Modeling (e.g. Scenarios, Storyboards), Agile Development & User Experience (e.g. User Stories combined with elements of Interaction Design), User Interface Prototyping (Low- & High-Fidelity), User Interface Engineering (Integration of Usability Methodology in the Software Development Process), Usability Testing (e.g. with Mobile Usability Lab), User Interface Specification.
For a variety of reasons, modern, non-trivial software systems must evolve to cope with change, including alterations in stakeholder requirements, environments in which the software is deployed, and dependent technologies, e.g., frameworks. Unfortunately, evolution and maintenance is an expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone task, especially when the system in question is large and complex. Typically, a change to a single program element requires changes to related, and often seemingly unrelated, elements scattered throughout the source code.
To address this problem, approaches have emerged to mechanically assist developers with a wide range of software evolution and maintenance tasks, including migrating code to a new framework version, translating existing code to a new platform, and restructuring code to mirror an improved design. This assistance is typically provided in the form of extensions (plug-ins) to integrated development environments (IDEs) that afford (semi-) automated aid in carrying out these tasks, thus easing the burden associated with evolution and maintenance. In some approaches, the corresponding plug-in keeps track of the elements relevant to the change being implemented, with the IDE displaying only those elements. Other approaches attempt to automatically restructure code to improve such features as type safety while preserving semantics.
Although existing approaches are useful in alleviating some of the burden associated with software evolution and maintenance, there are a number of situations where developers are still required to complete evolution and maintenance tasks manually. These include but are not limited to upgrading legacy Java software to take advantage of many other available features of the modern Java language, replacing certain usages of Java collections with custom type hierarchies, and updating software composition specifications to cope with change. Automated approaches to assist developers with such cumbersome and error-prone tasks would be extremely useful in evolving and maintaining large, complex systems.
In this thesis, I explore and develop a number of new techniques that can be of great value to software developers in evolving code to accommodate change. The first of these is an automated refactoring which upgrades legacy Java code to use proper language enumeration (enum) types, a feature of the modern Java language. I have developed an approach that preserves semantics and that allows us to migrate legacy applications by automatically replacing a predominantly used pattern with suitable use of enums.
For the second technique, I explore and develop an automated approach to assist developers in maintaining pointcuts in evolving Aspect-Oriented (AO) programs. AO languages enable developers to better encapsulate crosscutting concern (CCC) implementations by allowing them to create an expression (a pointcut) which specifies well-defined points (join points) in a program's execution where code corresponding to a CCC (an aspect) should apply. However, changes to the underlying program (base-code) may invalidate pointcuts, leaving developers to manually update pointcuts to capture the intended join points. I have developed an approach that mechanically aids developers in suitably updating pointcuts upon changes to the base-code by analyzing arbitrarily deep structural commonalities between program elements associated with pointcuts in a particular software version. The extracted patterns are then applied to later versions to suggest additional join points that may require inclusion.
The third technique I explore in this thesis pertains to reasoning about the behavior of AO programs. As previously noted, AOP facilitates localized implementations of CCCs by allowing developers to encapsulate code realizing a CCC that would otherwise be scattered throughout many system modules and/or intertwined with code realizing the primary functionality of a module. Theref
[2015/2016] Software systems engineering PRINCIPLESIvano Malavolta
This presentation is about a lecture I gave within the "Software systems and services" immigration course at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy): http://cs.gssi.infn.it/.
http://www.ivanomalavolta.com
Download the course text (Software Innovation) at http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/software-innovation/10889308?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2
Agile Requirements Agile Philly HandoutsDoniel Wilson
Agile Requirements Management is about mitigating risk and considering trade-offs that can be made early in the planning process.
While Agile improves many components of software delivery, one constant struggle for development is being able to accurately discern what the customer wants. This discussion will address common pitfalls in the requirements management cycle.
Don will highlight risks and present several strategies to mitigate these risks to improve the ability to deliver the desired results and the value an agile team brings to the organization.
As the Managing Director of Revolutionary Performance Management, Inc., Don Wilson has analyzed, planned, and implemented technology strategies for top tier companies such as Sprint, Marriott, AARP, and most recently the American Chemical Society. He is a Certified Project Management Professional, a Certified Scrum Product Owner and a Certified Scrum Master. He has a reputation for reviving “troubled” projects, achieving successful outcomes, and exceeding expectations. He is known as the “project-whisperer” for his ability to navigate effortlessly between business and technical groups to identify unspoken requirements.
Read more about Don Wilson on the Agile Philly website for this event at: http://www.agilephilly.com/events/2014-agile-requirements or www.thinkrpm.com
[DesignOps Global Conference 2019] Samir Dash - 3-steps for buildingdesign e...Samir Dash
This is a PDF of my keynote for DesignOps Global Conference 2019 [https://designops-conference.com/day-2-may-31/]
This is about exploring a framework to build a scalable, portable design system for collaboration and automation by machines.
This keynote is part of Session 4.
Session 4 | (PM) DesignOps in the era of AI and cognitive computing
How are different organizations leveraging people-to-people, people-to-machine and machine-to-machine interactions and autonomous systems to design and create new products and services? How do companies need to change their design practices and development processes in the era of cognitive computing and what roles will DesignOps play?
More :
https://designops-conference.com/
http://desops.io
User Interface Prototyping - Low- and High-Fidelity Prototyping TodayThomas Memmel
Zühlke offers various usability engineering services – get in touch at www.zuehlke.com/usability
User Studies, User Profiling & User Modeling (e.g. Personas), User-Centered Requirements Engineering, Usability Concepts & Modeling (e.g. Scenarios, Storyboards), Agile Development & User Experience (e.g. User Stories combined with elements of Interaction Design), User Interface Prototyping (Low- & High-Fidelity), User Interface Engineering (Integration of Usability Methodology in the Software Development Process), Usability Testing (e.g. with Mobile Usability Lab), User Interface Specification.
For a variety of reasons, modern, non-trivial software systems must evolve to cope with change, including alterations in stakeholder requirements, environments in which the software is deployed, and dependent technologies, e.g., frameworks. Unfortunately, evolution and maintenance is an expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone task, especially when the system in question is large and complex. Typically, a change to a single program element requires changes to related, and often seemingly unrelated, elements scattered throughout the source code.
To address this problem, approaches have emerged to mechanically assist developers with a wide range of software evolution and maintenance tasks, including migrating code to a new framework version, translating existing code to a new platform, and restructuring code to mirror an improved design. This assistance is typically provided in the form of extensions (plug-ins) to integrated development environments (IDEs) that afford (semi-) automated aid in carrying out these tasks, thus easing the burden associated with evolution and maintenance. In some approaches, the corresponding plug-in keeps track of the elements relevant to the change being implemented, with the IDE displaying only those elements. Other approaches attempt to automatically restructure code to improve such features as type safety while preserving semantics.
Although existing approaches are useful in alleviating some of the burden associated with software evolution and maintenance, there are a number of situations where developers are still required to complete evolution and maintenance tasks manually. These include but are not limited to upgrading legacy Java software to take advantage of many other available features of the modern Java language, replacing certain usages of Java collections with custom type hierarchies, and updating software composition specifications to cope with change. Automated approaches to assist developers with such cumbersome and error-prone tasks would be extremely useful in evolving and maintaining large, complex systems.
In this thesis, I explore and develop a number of new techniques that can be of great value to software developers in evolving code to accommodate change. The first of these is an automated refactoring which upgrades legacy Java code to use proper language enumeration (enum) types, a feature of the modern Java language. I have developed an approach that preserves semantics and that allows us to migrate legacy applications by automatically replacing a predominantly used pattern with suitable use of enums.
For the second technique, I explore and develop an automated approach to assist developers in maintaining pointcuts in evolving Aspect-Oriented (AO) programs. AO languages enable developers to better encapsulate crosscutting concern (CCC) implementations by allowing them to create an expression (a pointcut) which specifies well-defined points (join points) in a program's execution where code corresponding to a CCC (an aspect) should apply. However, changes to the underlying program (base-code) may invalidate pointcuts, leaving developers to manually update pointcuts to capture the intended join points. I have developed an approach that mechanically aids developers in suitably updating pointcuts upon changes to the base-code by analyzing arbitrarily deep structural commonalities between program elements associated with pointcuts in a particular software version. The extracted patterns are then applied to later versions to suggest additional join points that may require inclusion.
The third technique I explore in this thesis pertains to reasoning about the behavior of AO programs. As previously noted, AOP facilitates localized implementations of CCCs by allowing developers to encapsulate code realizing a CCC that would otherwise be scattered throughout many system modules and/or intertwined with code realizing the primary functionality of a module. Theref
[2015/2016] Software systems engineering PRINCIPLESIvano Malavolta
This presentation is about a lecture I gave within the "Software systems and services" immigration course at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy): http://cs.gssi.infn.it/.
http://www.ivanomalavolta.com
Download the course text (Software Innovation) at http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/software-innovation/10889308?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2
Agile Requirements Agile Philly HandoutsDoniel Wilson
Agile Requirements Management is about mitigating risk and considering trade-offs that can be made early in the planning process.
While Agile improves many components of software delivery, one constant struggle for development is being able to accurately discern what the customer wants. This discussion will address common pitfalls in the requirements management cycle.
Don will highlight risks and present several strategies to mitigate these risks to improve the ability to deliver the desired results and the value an agile team brings to the organization.
As the Managing Director of Revolutionary Performance Management, Inc., Don Wilson has analyzed, planned, and implemented technology strategies for top tier companies such as Sprint, Marriott, AARP, and most recently the American Chemical Society. He is a Certified Project Management Professional, a Certified Scrum Product Owner and a Certified Scrum Master. He has a reputation for reviving “troubled” projects, achieving successful outcomes, and exceeding expectations. He is known as the “project-whisperer” for his ability to navigate effortlessly between business and technical groups to identify unspoken requirements.
Read more about Don Wilson on the Agile Philly website for this event at: http://www.agilephilly.com/events/2014-agile-requirements or www.thinkrpm.com
[DesignOps Global Conference 2019] Samir Dash - 3-steps for buildingdesign e...Samir Dash
This is a PDF of my keynote for DesignOps Global Conference 2019 [https://designops-conference.com/day-2-may-31/]
This is about exploring a framework to build a scalable, portable design system for collaboration and automation by machines.
This keynote is part of Session 4.
Session 4 | (PM) DesignOps in the era of AI and cognitive computing
How are different organizations leveraging people-to-people, people-to-machine and machine-to-machine interactions and autonomous systems to design and create new products and services? How do companies need to change their design practices and development processes in the era of cognitive computing and what roles will DesignOps play?
More :
https://designops-conference.com/
http://desops.io
Calen Legaspi, O&B CEO, discusses a quick overview of Agile Software Development for the absolute beginner.
About O&B:
Orange & Bronze is a proponent of Agile Software Development. We believe that software development requires a collaborative environment where the software can start and evolve into a useful and strategic system. A common vision between O&B and the client is essential to have an effective collaborative environment. This, along with constant communication and repeated testing, ensures that the project will be delivered on time, all the time.
Orange & Bronze is an offshore product and software development firm in the Philippines, is one of the first companies in Asia to use and advocate Agile Software Development, and has been using it since our inception in 2005, back when Agile was still an emerging movement. O&B offers training courses for Agile with Scrum and XP - these classes were developed and are taught by some of the Philippines' well-known and respected Agile / Scrum coaches and practitioners, and uses the format trusted by some of the best companies in the Philippines.
Lviv IT Arena is a conference specially designed for programmers, designers, developers, top managers, inverstors, entrepreneur and startuppers. Annually it takes place on 2-4 of October in Lviv at the Arena Lviv stadium. In 2015 conference gathered more than 1400 participants and over 100 speakers from companies like Facebook. FitBit, Mail.ru, HP, Epson and IBM. More details about conference at itarene.lviv.ua.
A successful startup requires the best possible talent. Great people are out there, but how do you find them? And how do you make them want to work for you? This session focuses on identifying the positions necessary for your startup to scale, attracting the best talent using limited resources, and making sure you have a plan in place to find the right people for the job.
EclipseConEurope2012 SOA - Models As Operational DocumentationMarc Dutoo
At Eclipse Con Europe 2012 in the SOA Symposium track, JWT's EMF model export to structure and information in Document Management Systems is explained and demonstrated for in the case of the EasySOA service documentation registry, with JWT workflows producing a basis for SOA operational documentation.
Practicing What We Preach: designing usage centered deliverablesAviva Rosenstein
Slides and worksheets from a workshop presented at the IA Summit, 2011
During any product development process, interaction designers and researchers must communicate with internal and external team members and decision makers. All too often we talk the UX talk but we forget to walk the UX walk: we send out deliverables without thinking about our needs, the needs of the recipients and what we want to achieve.
Creating design deliverables that address the needs, goals and constraints of those team members will enhance your credibility as a design expert while improving the overall effectiveness of your organization.
This presentation includes a lean framework for understanding users' needs and goals that can help you design the right deliverable (or interface) at the right time for any working environment.
This presentation describe how software developers faced in Ivory tower development and what kind solutions available for avoid Ivory tower development in Agile.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP