Scholar
Ann Barcomb
Google Scholar ID: 1hMBs-8AAAAJ
Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary
Citations & Impact
Citations
338
H-index
10
i10-index
10
Publications
20
Co-authors
18
list available
Publications
Resume
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.
