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* Country where most of your education has taken place: Summary Results * Country where most of your research has taken place: Summary Results * My position can best be described as: Summary Results   If you answered other to the question above, please elaborate: Summary Results * The field I trained in can best described as: Summary Results   If you answered other to the question above, please elaborate: Summary Results * I work at (name of: University or Company or Organisation): Summary Results * I am affiliated with the following department(s) / fields: Summary Results * I have been involved in the software development / software research area professionally for: Summary Results * Have you taught a Software Engineering Subject Summary Results * Have you studied software engineering either as part of a degree or on your own (e.g. through books or papers) ? Summary Results * Have you used graphical models to design programs ? Summary Results * Which of the following tools / methodologies do you know and / or use? Functional Specifications Summary Results Flow Charts Summary Results Data Flow Diagrams Summary Results Entity Relationship Diagrams Summary Results Class / Package Diagrams Summary Results Interaction Diagrams Summary Results State Diagrams Summary Results State Transition Diagrams Summary Results Booch Notation Summary Results Use Cases Summary Results Use Case Diagrams Summary Results Unified Modeling Language Summary Results Specification Language Summary Results Waterfall SDLC Summary Results Fountain SDLC Summary Results Spiral SDLC Summary Results Rapid Application Development Summary Results Technical Reviews Summary Results Black Box testing Summary Results White Box Testing Summary Results Unit Testing Summary Results Integration Testing Summary Results JavaDoc Commenting Summary Results Systematic Internal Comments Summary Results Meaningfully named variables Summary Results Rational Rose Summary Results Structured A&D Summary Results Design Walk through Summary Results Code Reviews Summary Results Requirements Reviews Summary Results Prototyping Summary Results Formal Methods Summary Results MS Project Summary Results Compiler Summary Results Debugger Summary Results   1) Other SE tool you know: Summary Results   2) Other SE tool you know: Summary Results   3) Other SE tool you know: Summary Results   1) Other SE tool you use: Summary Results   2) Other SE tool you use: Summary Results   3) Other SE tool you use: Summary Results * Why do you use the methods you use ? 1. Saves time in the long run 2. Helps me clarify my ideas 3.Makes communicating easier across the team 4. Makes communication easier between projects 5. Assists with producing better quality software Summary Results   Other reasons for using these techniques / methods / tools Summary Results * Why don't you use (more often) the methods you described as "know but don't use" or "use rarely" in the question above? 1. Never thought about it 2. Don't know about them 3. Cost of learning them is too high 4. They are not appropriate for my work 5. Cost of using them is higher than the pay off 6. Organisational Policy against spending time on them 7. Other Summary Results   Other reasons for not using other techniques / methods / tools Summary Results * Have your usage patterns changed over time ? 1. Used to use none now use a lot 2. Used to use none, now use a little 3. Used to use some now use more 4. No change 5. Used to use a little but stopped or decreased my use 6. Used to use a lot now use a little 7. Used to use a lot now use none Summary Results * I expect to use 1. Less in the future 2. The same amount in the future 3. More in the future Summary Results   Comment: The following questions are project related. Your answers here may need to differ from your answers in the above questions. Please choose 1 project you have been involved with and answers your questions in relation to this project. After submitting this form you will be given the options of ending the survey or entering another project. If you intend entering more than one project it would be useful for comparison if one of these had significantly better outcomes than the other(s) * Project's Name WITH HELD * Institution / Company where it was carried out WITH HELD * The year the project was started Summary Results   The year the project was completed (or is scheduled to be completed). Summary Results * The department in the organisation you were working in had: 30. Under 30 people in it 50. Under 50 people people in it 100. Under 100 people people in it 200. Under 200 people people in it 201. 200 or more people in it Summary Results * Project management was controlled by: 1. Individual team members setting their own schedules or delivering goods when they completed them 2. The project group by consensus 3. The project leader with little input from organisational management 4. The project leader with some input from organisational management 5. Organisational management Summary Results * The organisation had: 1. No formal policy for approach to projects 2. A limited amount of formalism e.g. project applications, interim reports, final reports 3. A large amount of formalism e.g. specification of design languages and programming languages to be used and types of documentation to be created (e.g. design, testing, user manuals etc) Summary Results * Which best describes the project's approach to Analysis and Design: 1. Analysis & Design was done before coding was started 2. Analysis & Design was done while coding 3. Analysis of the problem took place after the project was completed 4. Analysis & Design was not explicitly done 5. Analysis prior to coding, design not possible (due to the projects nature) (please explain why this was so below) Summary Results * Given more time and / or money, would you go back and create / update design documents after coding Summary Results   If you indicated `design not possible' above, please explain why Summary Results * Which best describes the projects approach to documentation: 1. Detailed and useful documentation was started before coding (e.g. Analysis and / or Design documents) and kept 2. Some useful documentation was started before coding (e.g. a useful project proposal) and kept 3. Some useful external documentation was created during coding and kept (design documents, Javadoc, etc) 4. The only documentation on the project code is by way of papers relating to the project (and a users manual / inbuilt help). Summary Results * The projects development was modeled on a software development life cycle model: 1. Waterfall 2. Fountain 3. Spiral 4. RAD 5. The development was according to some other explicit model 6. The development was not planned or systematic Summary Results * How many different people worked on the project at one point or another (in total) Summary Results * At its peak, how big was the project team Summary Results * Roughly how much funding did the project receive (in total) Summary Results * Number of complete re-writes of software Summary Results * Time spent in planning the project (in months): Summary Results * Time spent on development (In months): Summary Results * Meeting Frequency: 1. Monthly 2. Fortnightly 3. Weekly 4. Daily Summary Results * Meeting duration on average: 1. 30 minutes 2. 1 hour 3. 2 hours 4. Half day 5. All day Summary Results * Reuse, how many/much code was reused when building this project 1. standard classes e.g. template libraries, Java standard library 2. some code of a previous version of the software 3. Some small components that developers already had 4. Some small components that developers found (e.g. from GNU) 5. Largely based on an existing framework 6. Research was a plug in to another piece of software Summary Results * Were you able to get all the resources you asked for ? e.g. programmers, machine time, hardware etc Summary Results * Personal satisfaction with project outcomes 1. Much less then other projects 2. Less than other projects 3. about the same 4. More than other projects 5. Much more than other projects Summary Results * Personal frustration with project process 1. Much less then other projects 2. Less than other projects 3. about the same 4. More than other projects 5. Much more than other projects Summary Results * Looking back would you use more things (e.g. analysis, design, documentation, reviews, testing etc) earlier on if you had to redo the project ? Summary Results * Papers published as a result of this project: Summary Results * Number of modification / addition projects to the main research (e.g. summer vacation, honors, post grad projects) Summary Results * Number of students who continued on with research related to the project after finishing their initial involvement (e.g. honors students who went on to do further research) Summary Results * Number of Students involved in project as part of a higher degree by research Summary Results * Average papers published per Higher Degree by Research student relating to the project and their work on it Summary Results * Is there a user group for the software produced Summary Results * What grants were attracted Summary Results * What is/was the value of these grants ($AUS) Summary Results * How do you rate the success of the project ? Summary Results   I would like further communication with this survey: WITHHELD   Comment: The following question are to enable further communication in relation to this research. If you wish to remain anonymous, feel free not to answer them.   Email Address WITH HELD   Name: This is used only in communication to you by e-mail WITH HELD