The PhD defence will be partially digital, in Kristen Nygaards sal (5370), Ole-Johan Dahls hus and streamed directly using Zoom. The host of the session will moderate the technicalities while the chair of the defence will moderate the disputation.
Ex auditorio questions: the chair of the defence will invite the attending audience at Kristen Nygaards sal to ask ex auditorio questions.
Trial lecture
"Human aspects of software engineers"
Time and place: March 29, 2023 11:15 AM, Kristen Nygaards sal (5370), Ole-Johan Dahls hus/ Zoom
Main research findings
This thesis seeks to determine the skills that employers expect of software testers and evaluate these requirements in relation to testers' role performance. We found five specialties within the testing role. Due to the effective application of skills, the testers preferred to work in a single specialty. At the same time, the majority of businesses expected the testers to possess a wide range of hard and soft abilities, and to specialize in several testing areas concurrently. As such, there is a disparity between the employers' requirements and the testers' capacity to perform the job. Businesses are advised to take into account the number and specificity of roles they require from testers.
Adjudication committee:
- Professor Sandro Morasca, Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicante, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
- Dr Tanjila Kanij, Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity, Monash University, Australia
- Associate Professor Suhas Govind Joshi, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Supervisors
- Associate Professor Viktoria Stray, Department of Informatics, UIO, Norway
- Professor Dag Sjøberg, Department of Informatics, UIO, Norway
Chair of defence:
Head of department Stephan Oepen
Contact information at Department: Pernille Adine Nordby