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Adopting Agile in the Sports Domain: A Phased Approach
Full text linkSports Science is a new and evolving industry. There is a great potential in this domain which will be realised by capturing and analysing the performance data of the elite athletes and displaying all relevant information to them for better decision making and performance improvement. Establishing reliable systems to achieve performance monitoring in the sports science domain require hardware sensors, firmware and software algorithms work coherently. Such complex systems having also cyber-physical characteristics would bring their own challenges. In this paper, first we present the challenges related with the domain and the development environment based on our experiences in the STATSports Company. Then, we discuss how we adopted agile software development practices to overcome these challenges in a phased approach
A Framework for Taxonomy Based Testing Using Classification of Defects in Health Software-SW91
Full text linkTaxonomy based testing is an efficient approach to find software defects at earlier phases of medical device software development. It allows the creation of goal oriented test cases while brainstorming test ideas. This approach is adaptable into standard testing processes such as the ISTQB and the 29119-2. It uses a new standard, a defect taxonomy SW91 which is identified as a consensus standard by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This paper presents steps to be followed in implementing taxonomy based testing at a medical device software organisation which follows the software development process explained in IEC 62304:2006+A1:2015. Finally, the future work section explains how this framework can be tailored to testing techniques and how its efficiency and benefits will be evaluated via expert reviews and implementation at medical device software organisations
A Process Framework Combining Safety and Security: In Practice
Full text linkCyber-Physical-Systems provide huge potential for delivering highly effective solutions for multiple safety critical domains such as health, automotive, sports etc. Given the complexity of cyber physical systems, it is important to ensure the safety and security of such systems. Failure of such systems could result in potential harm to people and temporary downtime of important infrastructures with detrimental consequences for industry and society. This article describes a safety and security framework that could be implemented when building cyber physical systems for the safety critical medical device domain. We also provide details of how this framework was implemented in an organisation, STATSports Group, which develops cyber physical systems for performance monitoring of elite athletes to the specification required.
Keywords: Safety Critical Domain, Cyber Physical Systems, Security, MDevSPICE
Designing a Wellness Self-Management Tool for Older Adults – Results from a Field Trial of YourWellness
No full textIt is recognized that empowering individuals to manage their own health and wellbeing will result in more cost-effective healthcare systems, improved health outcomes and will encourage healthy individuals to remain that way. With the advent of the quantified-self movement in recent years, there has been an increase in technology applications supporting wellness self-management. Such applications allow people to self-track and self-report, with many providing feedback. However, little research in this area has examined how best to support older adults in health self-management. This paper reports findings from a 5-month home deployment of YourWellness – an application that supports older adults in self-reporting on their wellbeing and provides feedback to promote positive wellbeing management. Our findings contribute to a greater understanding of older adults’ attitudes and behaviours in relation to wellbeing self-management that can facilitate the creation of new, personalized health and wellbeing interventions for this population
Performing Local Music: Engaging with Regional Musical Identities through Higher Education and Research
Full text linkRegional differences in Irish traditional music are challenged by processes of globalization but supported by an apparent tribalism and localism amongst Irish people and potential economic valuing of regional traditions. Local musical traditions underpin regional identities, particularly in parts of the west of Ireland, but they also create networks that enhance a sense of community underpinned by intangible cultural heritage. Many students who undertake undergraduate music studies at Irish institutions engage in the study of regional musical styles, requiring them to critically listen to selected performers, often from regions in the west of Ireland. This can create or reinforce a limited canon that places an emphasis on historical recordings. Understanding both regions and traditions as processes, the canon must be revised in the context of new modes of learning and engagement with tradition and communities that are shaped by new technologies and virtual spaces, and by new geographies of the tradition that relocate music-making nationally and internationally. Students become part of the musical community of the region in which they undertake their studies and can most readily immerse themselves in local cultures through observation and participation beyond the classroom
Agile Usage in Embedded Software Development in Safety Critical Domain–A Systematic Review
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Full text link‘Review: The Rose in the Gap’ with Séamus Bellew, Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society 2019
Hybrid Software and System Development in Practice: Waterfall, Scrum, and Beyond
Full text linkSoftware and system development faces numerous challenges of rapidly changing markets.
To address such challenges, companies and projects design and adopt speciĄc development approaches
by combining well-structured methods and Ćexible agile practices. Yet, the number of methods and
practices is large and the actual process composition is often carried out in an ad-hoc manner. This
paper reports on a survey on hybrid software development approaches. We study which approaches
are used in practice, how diferent approaches are combined, and what contextual factors inĆuence the
use and combination of hybrid software development approaches.
This summary refers to the paper Hybrid Software and System Development in Practice: Waterfall,
Scrum, and Beyond [Ku17]. This paper was published as full research paper in the proceedings of the
International Conference on Software System Process