Xiaofeng Wang

Orcid: 0000-0001-8424-419X

Affiliations:
  • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Computer Science, Italy


According to our database1, Xiaofeng Wang authored at least 165 papers between 2006 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:
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  • Erdős number3 of four.

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2026
Introduction to the Special Issue - Agile and Lean: How far did we come and what's next?
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2026

VECTR: A Lightweight Requirements Prioritization Method for Software Startups Grounded in ROI, Time-to-Value, and Confidence.
Comput., 2026

Critical Success Factors of Agile Software Development Projects in Hybrid Settings: A Mixed-Method Approach.
IEEE Access, 2026

Human-AI Collaboration in Software Development Activities: Perspectives of Agile Practitioners.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2026

2025
AI and Agile Software Development: A Research Roadmap from the XP2025 Workshop.
CoRR, August, 2025

ArchHypo: Managing Software Architecture Uncertainty Using Hypotheses Engineering.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., February, 2025

Data analytics in software startups: Understanding key concepts and critical challenges.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2025

Core Theories in Agile Software Development.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2025

Architecture Refactoring Towards Service Reusability in the Context of Microservices.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2025

Soulbound-wearables for reliable visual identity within the metaverse.
Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain, 2025

The Ambidextrous Startup: Balance Between Exploitation of Present and Exploration of Future.
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business, 2025

An AI-Driven Decision Support System for Product Feature Prioritization in Software Startups.
Proceedings of the Software Business - 16th International Conference, 2025

2024
Work-from-home impacts on software project: A global study on software development practices and stakeholder perceptions.
Softw. Pract. Exp., 2024

Using Hypotheses to Manage Technical Uncertainty and Architecture Evolution in a Software Start-up.
IEEE Softw., 2024

Product managers in software startups: A grounded theory.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2024

AI-powered Code Review with LLMs: Early Results.
CoRR, 2024

Can Large Language Models Serve as Data Analysts? A Multi-Agent Assisted Approach for Qualitative Data Analysis.
CoRR, 2024

Blockchain-Based Verifiable Credentials for Virtual Teams Management in the Metaverse.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, 2024

FairFix: Enhancing Fairness of Pre-Trained Deep Neural Networks with Scarce Data Resources.
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security, 2024

The Use of Generative AI Tools in the Inception Stage of Software Startups.
Proceedings of the Software Business - 15th International Conference, 2024

Hybrid Work meets Agile Software Development: A Systematic Mapping Study.
Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2024

Pattern Language for Leveraging Metadata to Reusability in APIs.
Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, 2024

SSL-Cleanse: Trojan Detection and Mitigation in Self-Supervised Learning.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2024, 2024

2023
Special section on IST for ICSOB2021.
Inf. Softw. Technol., August, 2023

ACM SIGSOFT Towards Sustainable Software Business: 5th International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, January, 2023

From transformation to normalisation: An exploratory study of a large-scale agile transformation.
J. Inf. Technol., 2023

Autonomous Agents in Software Development: A Vision Paper.
CoRR, 2023

Impact in Software Engineering Activities After One Year of COVID-19 Restrictions for Startups and Established Companies.
IEEE Access, 2023

Turning Large Language Models into AI Assistants for Startups Using Prompt Patterns.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming - Workshops, 2023

An Empirical Study About the Instability and Uncertainty of Non-functional Requirements.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2023

Analytics Practices in Practice: How Software Startup Companies Are Applying Analytics?
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming - Workshops, 2023

Unveiling the Spectrum of Hybrid Work in Software Engineering: Research Directions.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming - Workshops, 2023

The Know-How of Agile Retrospectives in Software Startups.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming - Workshops, 2023

Preface.
Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Business (PhD Retreat, 2023

Practitioner Views on Analytics for Software Startups: A Preliminary Guide Based on Gray Literature.
Proceedings of the Software Business - 14th International Conference, 2023

Feeling the Elephant: Insiders' Perspectives on the Metaverse.
Proceedings of the Software Business - 14th International Conference, 2023

How to design Future-Ready Microservices? Analyzing microservice patterns for Adaptability.
Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, 2023

How Many Papers Should You Review? A Research Synthesis of Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2023

2022
XPro: A Model to Explain the Limited Adoption and Implementation of Experimentation in Software Startups.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

Comparing Methods for Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

HyMap: Eliciting hypotheses in early-stage software startups using cognitive mapping.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2022

Work-from-home and its implication for project management, resilience and innovation - a global survey on software companies.
CoRR, 2022

Supplemental package for a study on product managers in software startups.
Dataset, 2022

Are Your Online Agile Retrospectives Psychologically Safe? the Usage of Online Tools.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2022

Revealing Agile Mindset Using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY: Experience from an Online Agile Training Project.
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 2022

Understanding Low-Code or No-Code Adoption in Software Startups: Preliminary Results from a Comparative Case Study.
Proceedings of the Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 2022

Startup Digi-Dojo: A Digital Space Supporting Practice and Research of Startup Remote Work.
Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings (PhD Retreat, 2022

Keeping Fun Alive: an Experience Report on Running Online Coding Camps.
Proceedings of the 44th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training, 2022

Generated abstracts: evaluating automatic text summarization for blog posts in gray literature studies.
Proceedings of the EASE 2022: The International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering 2022, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 13, 2022

Digital mentor: towards a conversational bot to identify hypotheses for software startups.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering, 2022

2021
A case study on automatic summarization for gray literature.
Dataset, July, 2021

Understanding Hypotheses Engineering in Software Startups through a Gray Literature Review.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2021

Social loafing prevention in agile software development teams using team expectations agreements.
IET Softw., 2021

Surfacing Paradigms underneath Research on Human and Social Aspects of Software Engineering.
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2021

Analytics Mistakes that Derail Software Startups.
Proceedings of the EASE 2021: Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2021

2020
Failed software startups postmortem URLs.
Dataset, September, 2020

Systematic Mapping Study Data on Case Survey Studies in Software Engineering Research.
Dataset, July, 2020

Towards a Secure DevOps Approach for Cyber-Physical Systems: An Industrial Perspective.
Int. J. Syst. Softw. Secur. Prot., 2020

Continuous Information Monitoring in Software Startups.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming - Workshops, 2020

Hypotheses Elicitation in Early-Stage Software Startups Based on Cognitive Mapping.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2020

Patterns for Development of Safety-Critical Systems with Agile: Trace Safety Requirements and Perform Automated Testing.
Proceedings of the EuroPLoP '20: European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs 2020, 2020

MVP and experimentation in software startups: a qualitative survey.
Proceedings of the 46th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2020

Internal Software Startups - A Multiple Case Study on Practices, Methods, and Success Factors.
Proceedings of the 46th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2020

Case Survey Studies in Software Engineering Research.
Proceedings of the ESEM '20: ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2020

An Analysis of Students' Perception towards User Involvement in a Software Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2020

Software Startup ESSENCE: How Should Software Startups Work?
Proceedings of the Fundamentals of Software Startups, 2020

Startup Metrics That Tech Entrepreneurs Need to Know.
Proceedings of the Fundamentals of Software Startups, 2020

Startup Ecosystem Maturity and Visualization: The Cases of New York, Tel Aviv, and San Paolo.
Proceedings of the Fundamentals of Software Startups, 2020

Teaching "Through" Entrepreneurship: An Experience Report.
Proceedings of the Fundamentals of Software Startups, 2020

2019
A model of requirements engineering in software startups.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2019

QUESt: new practices to represent hypotheses in experiment-driven software development.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business: Start-ups, 2019

Perceived Benefits and Challenges of Learning Startup Methodologies for Software Engineering Students.
Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

Enablers and Inhibitors of Experimentation in Early-Stage Software Startups.
Proceedings of the Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 2019

How do startups develop internet-of-things systems: a multiple exploratory case study.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and System Processes, 2019

The Rise of Software Startup Research: An Insider's View.
Proceedings of the Software Business - 10th International Conference, 2019

A Board Game to Teach Team Composition in Software Startups.
Proceedings of the Software Business - 10th International Conference, 2019

How Software Startup Teams Reflect: Approaches, Triggers and Challenges.
Proceedings of the Software Business - 10th International Conference, 2019

Hypotheses engineering: first essential steps of experiment-driven software development.
Proceedings of the Joint 4th International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering and 1st International Workshop on Data-Driven Decisions, 2019

Incorporating real projects into a software engineering undergraduate curriculum.
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, 2019

A Tool-Based Approach for Essentializing Software Engineering Practices.
Proceedings of the 45th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2019

2018
What happens when software developers are (un)happy.
J. Syst. Softw., 2018

Lean Internal Startups for Software Product Innovation in Large Companies: Enablers and Inhibitors.
J. Syst. Softw., 2018

Essencery - A Tool for Essentializing Software Engineering Practices.
CoRR, 2018

Evaluation of initial cryptoasset offerings: the state of the practice.
Proceedings of the 2018 International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering, 2018

Do software startups innovate in the same way? A case survey study.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software-intensive Business: Start-ups, 2018

The buried presence of entrepreneurial experience-based learning in software startups.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software-intensive Business: Start-ups, 2018

100+ metrics for software startups - A multi-vocal literature review.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software-intensive Business: Start-ups, 2018

Software startup education around the world: A preliminary analysis.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software-intensive Business: Start-ups, 2018

The Essence Theory of Software Engineering - Large-Scale Classroom Experiences from 450+ Software Engineering BSc Students.
Proceedings of the Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 2018

Innovation initiatives in large software companies: a systematic mapping study.
Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Software and System Process, 2018

From MVPs to Pivots: A Hypothesis-Driven Journey of Two Software Startups.
Proceedings of the Software Business - 9th International Conference, 2018

A preliminary study of agility in business and production: cases of early-stage hardware startups.
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2018

2017
Start-Ups Must Be Ready to Pivot.
IEEE Softw., 2017

Future directions in Agile research: Alignment and divergence between research and practice.
J. Softw. Evol. Process., 2017

"Failures" to be celebrated: an analysis of major pivots of software startups.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2017

Are Software Startups Applying Agile Practices? The State of the Practice from a Large Survey.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2017

What Influences the Speed of Prototyping? An Empirical Investigation of Twenty Software Startups.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2017

Generating innovations for the internet of things: agility and speed.
Proceedings of the XP2017 Scientific Workshops, Cologne, Germany, May 22 - 26, 2017, 2017

Consequences of Unhappiness while Developing Software.
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering, 2017

Unhappy developers: bad for themselves, bad for process, and bad for software product.
Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2017

Requirements Elicitation Techniques Applied in Software Startups.
Proceedings of the 43rd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2017

Towards an Approach to Prevent Social Loafing in Software Development Teams.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2017

On the Unhappiness of Software Developers.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2017

2016
Software Startups - A Research Agenda.
e Informatica Softw. Eng. J., 2016

Key Challenges in Software Startups Across Life Cycle Stages.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming, 2016

How Do Software Startups Pivot? Empirical Results from a Multiple Case Study.
Proceedings of the Software Business - 7th International Conference, 2016

An Investigation into Software Product Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review.
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Engineering, 2016

Product Innovation through Internal Startup in Large Software Companies: A Case Study.
Proceedings of the 42th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2016

2015
Do feelings matter? On the correlation of affects and the self-assessed productivity in software engineering.
J. Softw. Evol. Process., 2015

How do you feel, developer? An explanatory theory of the impact of affects on programming performance.
PeerJ Comput. Sci., 2015

A survey study on major technical barriers affecting the decision to adopt cloud services.
J. Syst. Softw., 2015

In Need of Creative Mobile Service Ideas? Forget Adults and Ask Young Children.
CoRR, 2015

The Contemporary Understanding of User Experience in Practice.
CoRR, 2015

What is User Experience Really: towards a UX Conceptual Framework.
CoRR, 2015

Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering.
CoRR, 2015

Key Challenges in Early-Stage Software Startups.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming, 2015

Lean startup: why large software companies should care.
Proceedings of the Scientific Workshop Proceedings of the XP2015, 2015

Understanding the affect of developers: theoretical background and guidelines for psychoempirical software engineering.
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, 2015

A conceptual framework for lean regulated software development.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process, 2015

The Affect of Software Developers: Common Misconceptions and Measurements.
Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2015

2014
Microblogging in Open Source Software Development: The Case of Drupal and Twitter.
IEEE Softw., 2014

Software Developers, Moods, Emotions, and Performance.
IEEE Softw., 2014

Trends and emerging areas of agile research: the report on XP2014 PhD symposium.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2014

A framework for systematic analysis of open access journals and its application in software engineering and information systems.
Scientometrics, 2014

Turning Time from Enemy into an Ally Using the Pomodoro Technique.
CoRR, 2014

Self-organized Learning in Software Factory: Experiences and Lessons Learned.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2014

The Theory and Practice of Randori Coding Dojos.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2014

Why Early-Stage Software Startups Fail: A Behavioral Framework.
Proceedings of the Software Business. Towards Continuous Value Delivery, 2014

Gamified children universities: an exploratory study.
Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play, Toronto, ON, Canada, October 19, 2014

2013
Research Dojo: applying agile principles to agile research - workshop summary from XP2013.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2013

Traverse the landscape of the mind by walking: an exploration of a new brainstorming practice.
CoRR, 2013

Feature Usage Diagram for Feature Reduction.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2013

Are Happy Developers More Productive? - The Correlation of Affective States of Software Developers and Their Self-assessed Productivity.
Proceedings of the Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 2013

Agile Project - An Oxymoron? Proposing an Unproject Leadership Model for Complex Space.
Proceedings of the Lean Enterprise Software and Systems - 4th International Conference, 2013

Lean Software Development - What Exactly Are We Talking About?
Proceedings of the Lean Enterprise Software and Systems - 4th International Conference, 2013

Towards a Conceptual Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Cloud Computing.
Proceedings of the Software Business. From Physical Products to Software Services and Solutions, 2013

An agile v-model for medical device software development to overcome the challenges with plan-driven software development lifecycles.
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering in Health Care, 2013

Affordable and Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing Clusters: The Bolzano Raspberry Pi Cloud Cluster Experiment.
Proceedings of the IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, 2013

2012
"Leagile" software development: An experience report analysis of the application of lean approaches in agile software development.
J. Syst. Softw., 2012

Assimilation of agile practices in use.
Inf. Syst. J., 2012

The use of focus groups in complex and pressurised IS studies and evaluation using Klein & Myers principles for interpretive research.
Inf. Syst. J., 2012

Does cloud computing deliver the promised benefits for IT industry?
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture and European Conference on Software Architecture, 2012

Regulated Software Development - An Onerous Transformation.
Proceedings of the Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems, 2012

2011
People over Process: Key Challenges in Agile Development.
IEEE Softw., 2011

Medical Device Software Development - A Perspective from a Lean Manufacturing Plant.
Proceedings of the Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, 2011

Comparing Apples with Oranges? The Perceived Differences between Agile and Lean Software Development Processes.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, 2011

A Study of the Characteristics of Behaviour Driven Development.
Proceedings of the 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2011, Oulu, Finland, August 30, 2011

From agile to lean: the perspectives of the two agile online communities of interest.
Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Information Systems, 2011

The Combination of Agile and Lean in Software Development: An Experience Report Analysis.
Proceedings of the 2011 Agile Conference, 2011

2010
So You Think You're Agile?
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2010

Lean/Agile Software Development Methodologies in Regulated Environments - State of the Art.
Proceedings of the Lean Enterprise Software and Systems - First International Conference, 2010

Opening up the Agile Innovation Process.
Proceedings of the Human Benefit through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research - IFIP WG 8.2/8.6 International Working Conference, Perth, Australia, March 30, 2010

Turning Time from Enemy into an Ally Using the Pomodoro Technique.
Proceedings of the Agility Across Time and Space, 2010

2009
Where agile research goes: starting from a 7-year retrospective (report on agile research workshop at XP2009).
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2009

Coevolving Systems and the Organization of Agile Software Development.
Inf. Syst. Res., 2009

'Lots done, more to do': the current state of agile systems development research.
Eur. J. Inf. Syst., 2009

Where Agile Research Meets Industry Needs: Starting from a 10-Year Retrospective.
Proceedings of the Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2009

An Investigation of Agility Issues in Scrum Teams Using Agility Indicators.
Proceedings of the Information Systems Development, 2009

Creativity in Agile Systems Development: A Literature Review.
Proceedings of the Information Systems - Creativity and Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, 2009

Understanding agility in software development through a complex adaptive systems perspective.
Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Information Systems, 2009

2008
A Paradoxical Perspective on Contradictions in Agile Software Development.
Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Information Systems, 2008

2007
Agile Practices in Use from an Innovation Assimilation Perspective: A Multiple Case Study.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, 2007

Order and Chaos in Software Development: A Comparison of Two Software Development Teams in a Major IT Company.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth European Conference on Information Systems, 2007

2006
From business process management to business process ecosystem.
J. Inf. Technol., 2006

Organizing for agility: A complex adaptive systems perspective on agile software development process.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference on Information Systems, 2006


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