Ann Barcomb
Scholar

Ann Barcomb

Google Scholar ID: 1hMBs-8AAAAJ
Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary
free and open source softwarehuman factorssoftware engineering
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Citations
338
 
H-index
10
 
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Publications
20
 
Co-authors
18
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Resume (English only)
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.