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Overview

Kai Petersen is affiliated with the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on Information Systems and Software. Additional areas of study include Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work covers topics related to software engineering techniques and practices, software engineering research, software testing and debugging techniques, open source software innovations, advanced software engineering methodologies, semantic web and ontologies, and scientific computing and data management.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Kai Petersen include:

  • #Covid-19: An exploratory investigation of hashtag usage on Twitter (2021, Health Policy)
  • Context checklist for industrial software engineering research and practice (2021, Computer Standards & Interfaces)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Jürgen Börstler
  • Mohsin Irshad
  • Nauman bin Ali
  • Emília Mendes
  • Nasir Mehmood Minhas

Petersen's publications often appear in the following venues:

  • Information and Software Technology
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • e-Informatica Software Engineering Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Systematic mapping studies in software engineering

    Kai Petersen;Robert Feldt;Shahid Mujtaba;Michael Mattsson

  • Guidelines for conducting systematic mapping studies in software engineering : An update

    Kai Petersen;Sairam Vakkalanka;Ludwik Kuzniarz

  • Context in industrial software engineering research

    Kai Petersen;Claes Wohlin

  • Benefits and limitations of automated software testing: systematic literature review and practitioner survey

    Dudekula Mohammad Rafi;Katam Reddy Kiran Moses;Kai Petersen;Mika V. Mantyla

  • What is DevOps?: A Systematic Mapping Study on Definitions and Practices

    Ramtin Jabbari;Nauman bin Ali;Kai Petersen;Binish Tanveer

  • A comparison of issues and advantages in agile and incremental development between state of the art and an industrial case

    Kai Petersen;Claes Wohlin

  • The Waterfall Model in Large-Scale Development

    Kai Petersen;Kai Petersen;Claes Wohlin;Dejan Baca;Dejan Baca

  • The effect of moving from a plan-driven to an incremental software development approach with agile practices

    Kai Petersen;Claes Wohlin

  • Challenges and best practices in industry-academia collaborations in software engineering

    Vahid Garousi;Kai Petersen;Baris Ozkan

  • Experiences from using snowballing and database searches in systematic literature studies

    Deepika Badampudi;Claes Wohlin;Kai Petersen

  • Worldviews, Research Methods, and their Relationship to Validity in Empirical Software Engineering Research

    Kai Petersen;Cigdem Gencel

  • Measuring the flow in lean software development

    K. Petersen;C. Wohlin

  • Measuring and predicting software productivity

    Kai Petersen

  • On rapid releases and software testing: a case study and a semi-systematic literature review

    Mika V. Mäntylä;Bram Adams;Foutse Khomh;Emelie Engström

  • Software process improvement through the Lean Measurement (SPI-LEAM) method

    Kai Petersen;Claes Wohlin

  • Vision based victim detection from unmanned aerial vehicles

    Mykhaylo Andriluka;Paul Schnitzspan;Johannes Meyer;Stefan Kohlbrecher

  • Considering rigor and relevance when evaluating test driven development: A systematic review

    Hussan Munir;Misagh Moayyed;Kai Petersen

  • Survey Guidelines in Software Engineering: An Annotated Review

    Jefferson Seide Molléri;Kai Petersen;Emilia Mendes

  • Action research as a model for industry-academia collaboration in the software engineering context

    Kai Petersen;Cigdem Gencel;Negin Asghari;Dejan Baca

  • Waste and Lead Time Reduction in a Software Product Customization Process with Value Stream Maps

    Shahid Mujtaba;Robert Feldt;Kai Petersen

  • A systematic literature review on the industrial use of software process simulation

    Nauman Bin Ali;Kai Petersen;Claes Wohlin

  • Prioritizing agile benefits and limitations in relation to practice usage

    Adam Solinski;Kai Petersen

  • Benefits and Limitations of Automated Software Testing Systematic Literature Review and Practitioner Survey

    Dudekula Mohammad Rafi;Katam Reddy Kiran Moses;Kai Petersen;Mika Mäntylä

Frequent Co-Authors

Claes Wohlin
Claes Wohlin Blekinge Institute of Technology
Mika V. Mäntylä
Mika V. Mäntylä University of Helsinki
Emilia Mendes
Emilia Mendes Aarhus University
Tony Gorschek
Tony Gorschek Blekinge Institute of Technology
Robert Feldt
Robert Feldt Chalmers University of Technology
Dietmar Pfahl
Dietmar Pfahl University of Tartu
Michael Felderer
Michael Felderer University of Cologne
Richard Torkar
Richard Torkar University of Gothenburg
Per Runeson
Per Runeson Lund University
Foutse Khomh
Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal

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