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  • Article
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    How Software Practitioners Perceive Work-Related Barriers and Benefits Based on Their Educational Backgrounds: Insights From a Survey Study
    (IEEE, 2023) Ünlü, Hüseyin; Yürüm, Ozan Raşit; Özcan Top, Özden; Demirörs, Onur
    Survey results show that software practitioners from nonsoftware-related backgrounds face more barriers, have fewer benefits, and feel less satisfied in their work life. However, these differences reduce with more than 10 years of experience and involvement in software-related graduate programs, certificates, and mentorship.
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    Citation - WoS: 3
    Citation - Scopus: 6
    An Exploratory Case Study Using Events as a Software Size Measure
    (Springer, 2023) Hacaloğlu, Tuna; Demirörs, Onur
    Software Size Measurement is a critical task in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). It is the primary input for effort estimation models and an important measure for project control and process improvement. There exist various size measurement methods whose successes have already been proven for traditional software architectures and application domains. Being one of them, functional size measurement (FSM) attracts specific attention due to its applicability at the early phases of SDLC. Although FSM methods were successful on the data-base centric, transaction oriented stand-alone applications, in contemporary software development projects, Agile methods are highly used, and a centralized database and a relational approach are not used as before while the requirements suffer from a lack of detail. Today's software is frequently service based, highly distributed, message-driven, scalable and has unprecedented levels of availability. In the new era, event-driven architectures are appearing as one of the emerging approaches where the 'event' concept largely replaces the 'data' concept. Considering the important place of events in contemporary architectures, we focused on approaching the software size measurement problem from the event-driven perspective. This situation guided us to explore how useful event as a size measure in comparison to data-movement based methods. The findings of our study indicates that events can be promising for measurement and should be investigated further in detail to be formalized for creating a measurement model thereby providing a replicable approach.
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    Citation - WoS: 41
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    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.
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    Mikroservisler için İşgücü Kestirimi: Bir Durum Çalışması
    (IEEE, 2021) Ünlü, Hüseyin; Hacaloğlu, Tuna; Leblebici, Onur; Demirörs, Onur
    Software size measurement is critical as an input to perform important project management processes such as effort, cost and schedule estimation. Functional size measurement (FSM) methods are beneficial in terms of being applicable in the early phases of the software life cycle over functional requirements and providing a systematic and repeatable method. However, in agile organizations, it can be challenging to seperate measurement components of FSM methods from requirements in the early phases as the documentation is kept to a minimum compared to traditional methods such as the Waterfall Model and is detailed as the project steps. In addition, the existing FSM methods are not fully compatible with today's architectural structures, which are from being data-driven and to evolve into a behaviour-oriented structure. In this study, we performed a case study which includes a project developed with agile methods and using microservice-based architecture to compare the effectiveness of COSMIC FSM and event-based software size measurement. For this purpose, we measured the size of the project and created effort estimation models based on two methods. The measurers had difficulty in applying both methods due to the limited detail level of the requirements in the project. However, the event-based method was found to estimate effort with less error than the COSMIC FSM method.
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    Citation - WoS: 4
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    Isbsg Veri Seti Kullanılarak Yazılım Efor Kestirimi: Çoklu Durum Çalışmaları
    (IEEE, 2021) Ünlü, Hüseyin; Yalçın, Ali Görkem; Öztürk, Dilek; Akkaya, Güliz; Kalecik, Mert; Ekici, Nazım Umut; Orhan, Oğuzhan; Çiftçi, Okan; Yumlu, Selen; Demirörs, Onur
    Efor kestirimi yazılım projelerinin planlanmasında temel aktivitelerden biridir. Objektif, tekrarlanabilir efor kestirimleri genelde iki ana girdiye ihtiyaç duyar: yazılım büyüklüğü ve efor verisi. Yazılımın büyüklüğü fonksiyonel büyüklük olarak ölçüldüğünde projenin gereksinimlerinin tanımlı olmasından sonra her aşamasında ölçülebilir. Ancak, organizasyonlarda geçmiş projelere ait efor verisine her zaman ulaşmak mümkün olamamaktadır. Bu durumda yeni projeler için geçmiş verilerden yola çıkarak efor kestirim modelleri oluşturmak güç olabilir. Uluslararası Yazılım Kıyaslama Standartları Grubu (International Software Benchmarking Standards Group – ISBSG) veri seti dünya çapında birçok organizasyon tarafından sağlanan yazılım büyüklüğü ve efor bilgisi içeren çok sayıda proje bilgisi içerir. Bu veri seti organizasyonlarda efor kestirimi için kullanılabilir. Bu çalışmada, ISBSG veri setinin sektördeki organizasyonlara ait projelerin efor kestiriminde yararlı olup olmadığını araştırmak amacıyla lisansüstü öğrencileri ile çoklu durum çalışması yapılmıştır. Öğrenciler, çalıştıkları organizasyona ait bir projeyi öncelikle COSMIC İşlevsel Büyüklük Ölçüm yöntemi ile ölçmüş, sonrasında da ISBSG veri setini kullanarak efor kestirim modeli oluşturmuş ve projenin efor tahminini gerçekleştirmiştir. Çalışma sonuçları, efor verisi bulunamayan durumlarda ISBSG kullanarak tutarlı bir efor kestirim modelini oluşturmanın mümkün olduğunu göstermektedir.
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    Citation - WoS: 7
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    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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    A Method for Integrated Business Process Modeling and Ontology Development
    (Emerald, 2022) Coşkunçay, Ahmet; Demirörs, Onur
    Purpose: From knowledge management point of view, business process models and ontologies are two essential knowledge artifacts for organizations that consume similar information sources. In this study, the PROMPTUM method for integrated process modeling and ontology development that adheres to well-established practices is presented. The method is intended to guide practitioners who develop both ontologies and business process models in the same or similar domains. Design/methodology/approach: The method is supported by a recently developed toolset, which supports the modeling of relations between the ontologies and the labels within the process model collections. This study introduces the method and its companion toolset. An explanatory study, that includes two case studies, is designed and conducted to reveal and validate the benefits of using the method. Then, a follow-up semi-structured interview identifies the perceived benefits of the method. Findings: Application of the method revealed several benefits including the improvements observed in the consistency and completeness of the process models and ontologies. The method is bringing the best practices in two domains together and guiding the use of labels within process model collections in ontology development and ontology resources in business process modeling. Originality/value: The proposed method with its tool support is a pioneer in enabling to manage the labels and terms within the labels in process model collections consistently with ontology resources. Establishing these relations enables the definition and management of process model elements as resources in domain ontologies. Once the PROMPTUM method is utilized, a related resource is managed as a single resource representing the same real-world object in both artifacts. An explanatory study has shown that improvement in consistency and completeness of process models and ontologies is possible with integrated process modeling and ontology development.
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    Citation - WoS: 4
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    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
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    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.
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    Citation - WoS: 1
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    Automated Estimation of Functional Size From Code
    (IEEE, 2020) Özen, Özgesu; Özsoy, Bora; Aktılav, Busenur; Güleç, Eren Can; Demirörs, Onur
    Determination of the size of a software project is challenging as well as crucial for both self-employed software developers and corporate businesses. That's why it is subjected to a lot of academic studies where it is discussed how to determine the size more accurately. Functional Size Measurement (FSM) is one the most popular measurement techniques for a software from the point of the delivered functionality. However, the aspects of know-how, the cost, time, and manual operation creates difficulties to apply FSM techniques. This study aims to solve these issues by automating the measurement process to approximate the functional size of a project using the COSMIC Functional Size Measurement. The end product of this study is called 'Cosmic APP' that utilizes the sequence diagram of a software after reverse engineering it from the given code using a third-party tool called 'SequenceDiagram'. The working principles, the estimation process, and the obtained results of 'Cosmic APP' are described thoroughly in this paper. © 2020 IEEE.