3rd Workshop on Hybrid Development Approaches in Software System Development
This work is incremental, focusing on advancing research tools for investigating hybrid development methods in software engineering.
The paper introduces the 3rd HELENA workshop, which addresses the limited academic understanding of hybrid software development approaches by describing the research instrument and available datasets used to study these practices.
Evidence shows that software development methods, frameworks, and even practices are seldom applied in companies by following the book. Combinations of different methodologies into home-grown processes are being constantly uncovered. Nonetheless, an academic understanding and investigation of this phenomenon is very limited. In 2016, the HELENA initiative was launched to research hybrid development approaches in software system development. This paper introduces the 3rd HELENA workshop and provides a detailed description of the instrument used and the available data sets.