All Outputs (12)

Visualising personas as goal models to find security tensions. (2021)
Journal Article
FAILY, S., IACOB, C., ALI, R. and KI-ARIES, D. 2021. Visualising personas as goal models to find security tensions. Information and computer security [online], 29(5), pages 787-815. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/ICS-03-2021-0035

This paper aims to present a tool-supported approach for visualising personas as social goal models, which can subsequently be used to identify security tensions. The authors devised an approach to partially automate the construction of social goal m... Read More about Visualising personas as goal models to find security tensions..

Identifying implicit vulnerabilities through personas as goal models. (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S., IACOB, C., ALI, R. and KI-ARIES, D. 2020. Identifying implicit vulnerabilities through personas as goal models. In Katsikas, S., Cuppens, F., Cuppens, N., Lambrinoudakis, C., Kalloniatis, C., Mylopoulos, J., Antón, A., Gritzalis, S., Meng, W. and Furnell, S. (eds.) Computer security: ESORICS 2020 international workshops, CyberICPS, SECPRE, and ADIoT: revised selected papers from the 4th International workshop on security and privacy requirements engineering (SECPRE 2020), co-located with the 25th European symposium on research in computer security (ESORICS 2020), 14-18 September 2020, Guildford, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 12501. Cham: Springer [online], pages 185-202. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64330-0_12

When used in requirements processes and tools, personas have the potential to identify vulnerabilities resulting from misalignment between user expectations and system goals. Typically, however, this potential is unfulfilled as personas and system go... Read More about Identifying implicit vulnerabilities through personas as goal models..

The impact of undergraduate mentorship on student satisfaction and engagement, teamwork performance, and team dysfunction in a software engineering group project. (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IACOB, C. and FAILY, S. 2020. The impact of undergraduate mentorship on student satisfaction and engagement, teamwork performance, and team dysfunction in a software engineering group project. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM technical symposium on computer science education (SIGCSE 2020), 11-14 March 2020, Portland, USA. New York: ACM [online], pages 128-134. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366835

Mentorship schemes in software engineering education usually involve professional software engineers guiding and advising teams of undergraduate students working collaboratively to develop a software system. With or without mentorship, teams run the... Read More about The impact of undergraduate mentorship on student satisfaction and engagement, teamwork performance, and team dysfunction in a software engineering group project..

Exploring the gap between the student expectations and the reality of teamwork in undergraduate software engineering group projects. (2019)
Journal Article
IACOB, C. and FAILY, S. 2019. Exploring the gap between the student expectations and the reality of teamwork in undergraduate software engineering group projects. Journal of systems and software [online], 157, article number 110393. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2019.110393

Software engineering group projects aim to provide a nurturing environment for learning about teamwork in software engineering. Since social and teamwork issues have been consistently identified as serious problems in such projects, we aim to better... Read More about Exploring the gap between the student expectations and the reality of teamwork in undergraduate software engineering group projects..

Redesigning an undergraduate software engineering course for a large cohort. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IACOB, C. and FAILY, S. 2018. Redesigning an undergraduate software engineering course for a large cohort. In Proceedings of the 40th ACM/IEEE international conference on software engineering: software engineering education and training (ICSE-SEET 2018), 27 May - 3 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden. New York: ACM [online], pages 163-171. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3183377.3183381

Teaching Software Engineering on an undergraduate programme is challenging, particularly when dealing with large numbers of students. On one hand, a strong understanding of software and good programming skills are prerequisites. On the other hand, th... Read More about Redesigning an undergraduate software engineering course for a large cohort..

Using extreme characters to teach requirements engineering. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IACOB, C. and FAILY, S. 2017. Using extreme characters to teach requirements engineering. In Washizaki, H. and Mead, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 30th IEEE conference on software engineering education and training (CSEET 2017), 7-9 November 2017, Savannah, USA. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 107-111. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2017.25

One of the main challenges in teaching Software Engineering as an undergraduate course is making the need for software processes and documentation obvious. Armed with some knowledge of programming, students may feel inclined to skip any development p... Read More about Using extreme characters to teach requirements engineering..

Design as code: facilitating collaboration between usability and security engineers using CAIRIS. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. and IACOB, C. 2017. Design as code: facilitating collaboration between usability and security engineers using CAIRIS. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on evolving security and privacy requirements engineering (ESPRE 2017), part of the 25th IEEE international requirements engineering conference workshops (REW 2017), 4-8 September 2017, Lisbon, Portugal. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 76-82. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/REW.2017.23

Designing usable and secure software is hard without tool-support. Given the importance of requirements, CAIRIS was designed to illustrate the form tool-support for specifying usable and secure systems might take. While CAIRIS supports a broad range... Read More about Design as code: facilitating collaboration between usability and security engineers using CAIRIS..

MARAM: tool support for mobile app review management. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IACOB, C., FAILY, S. and HARRISON, R. 2016. MARAM: tool support for mobile app review management. In Kawsar, F., Zhang, P. and Musolesi, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 8th International conference on mobile computing, applications and services (MobiCase 2016), 30 November - 1 December 2016, Cambridge, UK. Brussels: Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST), pages 42-50.

Mobile apps today have millions of user reviews available online. Such reviews cover a large broad of themes and are usually expressed in an informal language. They provide valuable information to developers, such as feature requests, bug reports, an... Read More about MARAM: tool support for mobile app review management..

Ethical hazards and safeguards in penetration testing. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S., IACOB, C. and FIELD, S. 2016. Ethical hazards and safeguards in penetration testing. In Proceedings of the 30th International BCS human computer interaction conference (HCI 2016): fusion, 11-15 July 2016, Poole, UK. Swindon: BCS [online], article number 83. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.83

Penetration testing entails attacking a system to identify and report insecurity, but doing so without harming the system nor encroaching on the dignity of those affected by it. To improve the interaction between penetration testers and their process... Read More about Ethical hazards and safeguards in penetration testing..

Improving human-reviews interaction: a study of the role, use and place of online reviews. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IACOB, C. and FAILY, S. 2016. Improving human-reviews interaction: a study of the role, use and place of online reviews. In Proceedings of the 30th International BCS human computer interaction conference (HCI 2016): fusion, 11-15 July 2016, Poole, UK. Swindon: BCS [online], article number 21. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.21

The use and benefits of online reviews are undeniable, yet the interaction means available for buyers when consulting reviews remain limited. This study aims to provide a better understanding of the role and use of online reviews, presenting a set of... Read More about Improving human-reviews interaction: a study of the role, use and place of online reviews..

Ethical dilemmas and dimensions in penetration testing. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S., MCALANEY, J. and IACOB, C. 2015. Ethical dilemmas and dimensions in penetration testing. In Furnell, S.M. and Clarke, N.L. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International symposium on human aspects of information security and assurance (HAISA 2015), 1-3 July 2015, Mytilene, Greece. Plymouth: Plymouth University, pages 233-242.

Penetration testers are required to attack systems to evaluate their security, but without engaging in unethical behaviour while doing so. Despite work on hacker values and studies into security practice, there is little literature devoted to the eth... Read More about Ethical dilemmas and dimensions in penetration testing..

Online reviews as first class artifacts in mobile app development. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IACOB, C., HARRISON, R. and FAILY, S. 2014. Online reviews as first class artifacts in mobile app development. In Memmi, G. and Blanke, U. (eds.) Mobile computing, applications and services: revised selected papers from the proceedings of the 5th International conference on mobile computing, applications and services (MobiCase 2013), 7-8 November 2013, Paris, France. Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 130. Cham: Springer [online], pages 47-53. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05452-0_4

This paper introduces a framework for developing mobile apps. The framework relies heavily on app stores and, particularly, on online reviews from app users. The underlying idea is that app stores are proxies for users because they contain direct fee... Read More about Online reviews as first class artifacts in mobile app development..