Software engineering in civic tech a case study about code for Ireland

Antti Knutas; Victoria Palacin; Giovanni Maccani; Markus Helfert

doi:10.1109/ICSE-SEIS.2019.14

Software engineering in civic tech a case study about code for Ireland

Antti Knutas^*
, Victoria Palacin
, Giovanni Maccani
, Markus Helfert

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT
Dublin City University
Maynooth University

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Abstract

Civic grassroots have proven their ability to create useful and scalable software that addresses pressing social needs. Although software engineering plays a fundamental role in the process of creating civic technology, academic literature that analyses the software development processes of civic tech grassroots is scarce. This paper aims to advance the understanding of how civic grassroots tackle the different activities in their software development processes. In this study, we followed the formation of two projects in a civic tech group (Code for Ireland) seeking to understand how their development processes evolved over time, and how the group carried out their work in creating new technology. Our preliminary findings show that such groups are capable of setting up systematic software engineering processes that address software specification, development, validation, and evolution. While they were able to …

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICSE-SEIS '19: Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	41-50
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-1000-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS.2019.14
Publication status	Published - 25 May 2019
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	41st International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE '19 - Monteral, Canada Duration: 25 May 2019 → 31 May 2019

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Conference	41st International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE '19
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Monteral
Period	25/05/19 → 31/05/19

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Knutas, A, Palacin, V, Maccani, G & Helfert, M 2019, Software engineering in civic tech a case study about code for Ireland. in ICSE-SEIS '19: Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 41-50, 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE '19, Monteral, Quebec, Canada, 25/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS.2019.14

Software engineering in civic tech a case study about code for Ireland. / Knutas, Antti; Palacin, Victoria; Maccani, Giovanni et al.
ICSE-SEIS '19: Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2019. p. 41-50.

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