Scholar
Ann Barcomb
Google Scholar ID: 1hMBs-8AAAAJ
Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary
free and open source software
human factors
software engineering
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Publications
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Teaching Empathy in Software Engineering Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
2026
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How Fair is Software Fairness Testing?
2026
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Explainability as a Compliance Requirement: What Regulated Industries Need from AI Tools for Design Artifact Generation
2025
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From Inductive to Deductive: LLMs-Based Qualitative Data Analysis in Requirements Engineering
2025
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A Survey for What Developers Require in AI-powered Tools that Aid in Component Selection in CBSD
2025
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Academic Achievements
Recipient of an NSERC Discovery Grant.
Published three core dissertation papers on episodic participation in FLOSS (2018–2020).
Co-authored multiple papers on qualitative data analysis, requirements engineering, and software engineering education (e.g., Kaufmann, Barcomb & Riehle, 2020; Marasco et al., 2022).
Published two practitioner-oriented articles and presented at five practitioner conferences (2017–2020).
Supervised a graduate student who presented related work in 2023.
Recent work includes corporate involvement in open source (Yenişen Yavuz, Barcomb & Riehle, 2022).
Research Experience
Research Area I: Improving Working through Software and Data, including:
— Using NLP to enhance qualitative data analysis and requirements engineering;
— Research methods in software engineering, especially rigor in qualitative research;
— Software engineering education, e.g., industry collaboration to improve course content.
Research Area II: Human Factors in Software Development, including:
— Open source contributors and communities (especially episodic participation);
— Diversity and inclusion (e.g., ageism and sexism among developers);
— Component and tool selection.
Co-authors
18 total
Dirk RIEHLE
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Klaas-Jan Stol
School of Computer Science and IT, University College Cork, Lero, SINTEF
Brian Fitzgerald
Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre, University of Limerick
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Alexander Serebrenik
Full Professor of Social Software Engineering, Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology
Sebastian Baltes
University of Bayreuth
Nicolas Jullien
IMT Atlantique, Marsouin- LEGO
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