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    Citation - WoS: 2
    Citation - Scopus: 2
    Effort Prediction With Limited Data: a Case Study for Data Warehouse Projects
    (IEEE, 2022) Unlu, Huseyin; Yildiz, Ali; Demirors, Onur
    Organizations may create a sustainable competitive advantage against competitors by using data warehouse systems with which they can assess the current status of their operations at any moment. They can analyze trends and connections using up-to-date data. However, data warehouse projects tend to fail more often than other projects as it can be tough to estimate the effort required to build a data warehouse system. Functional size measurement is one of the methods used as an input for estimating the amount of work in a software project. In this study, we formed a measurement basis for DWH projects in an organization based on the COSMIC Functional Size Measurement Method. We mapped COSMIC rules on two different architectures used for DWH projects in the organization and measured the size of the projects. We calculated the productivity of the projects and compared them with the organization's previous projects and DWH projects in the ISBSG repository. We could not create an organization-wide effort estimation model as we had a limited number of projects. As an alternative, we evaluated the success of effort estimation using DWH projects in the ISBSG repository. We also reported the challenges we faced during the size measurement process.
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 41
    Citation - Scopus: 50
    Bim-Carem: Assessing the Bim Capabilities of Design, Construction and Facilities Management Processes in the Construction Industry
    (Elsevier, 2023) Gökçen, Yılmaz; Akçamete, Aslı; Demirörs, Onur
    BIM adoption has accelerated worldwide since it is an important enabling technology for digitalisation in the construction industry. Adopting BIM requires transforming the traditional building life cycle stages (planning, design, construction and facilities management) into BIM-integrated project deliveries. Assessing the BIM ca- pabilities of these stages helps organisations to identify gaps in their BIM uses and improve them. There is a lack of a comprehensive model in the literature for assessing the BIM capabilities of individual building life cycle stages and their processes. Existing assessment models focus on assessing the BIM maturity of construction projects and organisations which do not inform the required BIM improvements for individual stages and their processes. Hence, we iteratively developed the Building Information Modelling (BIM) Capability Assessment REference Model (BIM-CAREM) and demonstrated its usability through multiple explanatory case studies per- formed with two international design and engineering companies and two general contractors in Turkey. We assessed the BIM capabilities of design, construction and facility management processes of various buildings i.e. residential, stadiums, hospitals and airports. The results showed that the BIM capability levels of design, con- struction and facility management processes vary within and across the companies.
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 7
    Citation - Scopus: 12
    A Survey on Organizational Choices for Microservice-Based Software Architectures
    (TÜBİTAK, 2022) Ünlü, Hüseyin; Bilgin, Burak; Demirörs, Onur
    During the last decade, the demand for more flexible, responsive, and reliable software applications increased exponentially. The availability of internet infrastructure and new software technologies to respond to this demand led to a new generation of applications. As a result, cloud-based, distributed, independently deployable web applications working together in a microservice-based software architecture style have gained popularity. The style has been a common practice in the industry and successfully utilized by companies. Adopting this style demands software organizations to transform their culture. However, there is a lack of research studies that explores common practices for microservices. Thus, we performed a survey to explore the organizational choices on software analysis, design, size measurement, and effort estimation when working with microservices. The results provide a snapshot of the software industry that utilizes microservices. We provide insight for software organizations to transform their culture and suggest challenges researchers can focus on in the area.
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    Citation - WoS: 4
    Citation - Scopus: 12
    Event Oriented Vs Object Oriented Analysis for Microservice Architecture: an Exploratory Case Study
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021) Ünlü, Hüseyin; Tenekeci, Samet; Yıldız, Ali; Demirörs, Onur
    The rapidly developing internet infrastructure together with the advances in software technology has enabled the development of cloud-based modern web applications that are much more responsive, flexible, and reliable compared to traditional monolithic applications. Such modern applications require new software design paradigms and architectures. Microservice-based architecture (MSbA), which aims to create small, isolated, loosely-coupled applications that work in cohesion, becoming widespread as one of these approaches. MSbA allows the developed applications to be deployed and maintained separately, as well as scaled on demand. However, there is no de facto method for the analysis and design of systems for these architectures. In this paper, we compared the usefulness of the object-oriented (OO) and event-oriented (EO) approaches for analyzing and designing MS-based systems. More specifically, we performed an exploratory case study to analyze, design, and implement a software application dealing with the 'application and evaluation process of graduate students at IzTech'. This paper discusses the results of this case study. We observe that the EO approaches have significant advantages with respect to the OO approaches.
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    Citation - WoS: 6
    Citation - Scopus: 6
    Mikroservis Mimarisinde Analiz ve Tasarım: Türkiye’den Bir İnceleme
    (IEEE, 2020) Bilgin, Burak; Ünlü, Hüseyin; Demirörs, Onur
    The demand for more flexible, responsive and reliable software applications and the availability of internet infrastructure to respond to this demand, led to a new generation of cloud-based web applications. As a result, cloud- based distributed web applications working together in a microservice-based architecture has gained popularity. The concept of microservice-based architecture is quite new and software organizations need to transform their culture to develop applications in this fashion. However, there is a lack of research studies in the literature that explores the common practices for the analysis and design of microservices. Thus, we performed a survey to explore the organizational choices on software analysis and design when working with microservices. In this paper, we present the results from Turkey. The results provide a snapshot of the software industry that utilizes microservices and suggests a set of challenges researchers can focus on in the area. © 2020 IEEE.
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 12
    Citation - Scopus: 21
    A Change Management Model and Its Application in Software Development Projects
    (Elsevier, 2019) Efe, Pınar; Demirörs, Onur
    Change is inevitable in software projects and software engineers strive to find ways to manage changes. A complete task could be easily in a team's agenda sometime later due to change demands. Change demands are caused by failures and/or improvements and require additional effort which in most cases have not been planned upfront and affect project progress significantly. Earned Value Management (EVM) is a powerful performance management and feedback tool for project management. EVM depicts the project progress in terms of scope, cost, and schedule and provides future predictions based on trends and patterns of the past. Even though EVM works quite well and widely used in disciplines like construction and mining, it is not the case for software discipline. Software projects require special attention and adoption for change. In this study, we present a model to measure change and subsequent rework and evolution costs to monitor software projects accurately. We have performed five case studies in five different companies to explore the usability of the proposed model. This paper depicts the proposed model and discusses the results of the case studies.
  • Conference Object
    Citation - WoS: 3
    Citation - Scopus: 11
    Towards Modeling Patterns for Embedded Software Industry: Feedback From the Field
    (IEEE, 2018) Akdur, Deniz; Demirörs, Onur; Say, Bilge
    The analysis, design, implementation and testing of software for embedded systems are not trivial. Software modeling is a commonly used approach in the embedded software industry to manage complexity of these phases. The modeling approaches vary since the characteristics of modeling such as its purpose, the medium type used, the lifecycle phase used, differ among systems and industrial sectors. Our previous research identified and defined the modeling approach patterns in embedded software development projects based on quantitative data. In this paper, to validate and improve the pre-investigated pattern set, we present a series of semi-structured interviews over eight months with 53 embedded software professionals across a variety of target industrial sectors and roles. With the help of these interviews, the different modeling approach patterns in embedded software development were better understood and the hidden patterns not evident in the previous study were identified along with a documentation of personalized modeling experiences.
  • Conference Object
    Citation - Scopus: 3
    Exploring Reuse Levels in Erp Projects in Search of an Effort Estimation Approach
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018) Demirörs, Onur; Küçükateş Ömüral, Neslihan
    Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects have special characteristics that differentiate them from other kinds of software projects. Main difference that affects effort estimation results is high reuse rates of ERP projects. This paper presents our exploratory work to establish an approach to calculate reuse reflective size of ERP projects, which could be a primary input for effort estimation. We explored the usability of COSMIC function points as the base unit and its convertibility to reuse reflective size using reuse levels. We have performed a case study on an SAP Implementation project. We were able to calculate COSMIC size and reuse levels using the documents available for the project. We discuss the results as well as challenges and opportunities in the light of the case study.
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    Utilizing Modeling Approach Patterns in the Embedded Software Industry
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Akdur, Deniz; Demirörs, Onur
    To cope with the growing complexity of software-intensive embedded system development, modeling is a widely used approach. The modeling approaches in the embedded software industry vary depending on many modeling characteristics (e.g., purpose, modeling rigor, medium type used, modeling stakeholder profile, etc.). In the light of our previous studies, we have identified modeling approach patterns of embedded software development projects and constructed a characterization model. This model not only identifies and defines modeling approach patterns of the stakeholder in embedded software development projects, but also gives recommendations for commonsense modeling practices. In this article, one of the application results of this characterization model, which was performed in Defense & Aerospace sector is presented. The model was successfully applied to the case, in which a series of both structured and semi-structured interviews with 17 embedded software professionals were conducted. The results show that identification of individual patterns provide insight for improvement both for individuals as well as larger units of operations such as projects and organizations.
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    Citation - WoS: 22
    Citation - Scopus: 40
    Correlation of Critical Success Factors With Success of Software Projects: an Empirical Investigation
    (Springer Verlag, 2019) Garousi, Vahid; Tarhan, Ayça; Pfahl, Dietmar; Coşkunçay, Ahmet; Demirörs, Onur
    Software engineering researchers have, over the years, proposed different critical success factors (CSFs) which are believed to be critically correlated with the success of software projects. To conduct an empirical investigation into the correlation of CSFs with success of software projects, we adapt and extend in this work an existing contingency fit model of CSFs. To archive the above objective, we designed an online survey and gathered CSF-related data for 101 software projects in the Turkish software industry. Among our findings is that the top three CSFs having the most significant associations with project success were: (1) team experience with the software development methodologies, (2) team's expertise with the task, and (3) project monitoring and controlling. A comprehensive correlation analysis between the CSFs and project success indicates positive associations between the majority of the factors and variables, however, in most of the cases at non-significant levels. By adding to the body of evidence in this field, the results of the study will be useful for a wide audience. Software managers can use the results to prioritize the improvement opportunities in their organizations w.r.t. the discussed CSFs. Software engineers might use the results to improve their skills in different dimensions, and researchers might use the results to prioritize and conduct follow-up in-depth studies on those factors.