Discover the techniques, methods, and findings of the Dalhousie Software Engineering Lab in this selection of featured work:

• T. Sedano and P. Ralph. (2026). Sustainable Dual-Track Development. Routledge. ISBN: 9781032983103

• M. Kuutila, P. Ralph, H. S. Qiu, R. de Souza Santos, M. Choetkiertikul, A. M. Fard, R. Alkadi, X. Devroey, G. Robles, H. Hata, S. Baltes, H. Arif, V. Kovalenko, S. Chakraborty, E. Tuzan and G. Adisaputri. (2026). “Staying or Leaving? How Job Satisfaction, Embeddedness and Antecedents Predict Turnover Intentions of Software Professionals,” In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE),  Rio de Jaineiro, Brazil, pp. 1-13, doi: 10.1145/3744916.3773124.

• B. Ayoola, M. Kuutila, R. R. Wehbe and P. Ralph, (2025) “User Personas Improve Social Sustainability by Encouraging Software Developers to Deprioritize Antisocial Features,” In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Ottawa, ON, Canada, pp. 833-845, doi: 10.1109/ICSE55347.2025.00135.

• V. Jackson, B.V. Mr. Vaslilescu, D. Russo, P. Ralph, R. Prickladnicki, M. Izadi, S. D’Angelo, S. Inman, A. Andrade, and A. van der Hoek. (2025). “The Impact of Generative AI on Creativity in Software Development,” In ACM Transaction on Software Engineering and Methodology, 34, 5, 1-28, doi: 10.1145/3708523.

• P. Ralph, M. Kuutila, H. Arif and B. Ayoola. (2024). “Teaching Software Metrology: The Science of Measurement for Software Engineering,” in Handbook on Teaching Empirical Software Engineering, pp. 101-154. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.14494.

• B. Ayoola. (2023). “Evaluation of Stakeholder Mapping and Personas for Sustainable Software Development,” In, 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 270-272, doi: 10.1109/ICSE-Companion58688.2023.00073.

• S. McGuire, E. Schultz, B. Ayoola, and P. Ralph. (2023). “Sustainability is Stratified: Toward a Better Theory of Sustainable Software Engineering,” In, 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1996-2008, doi: 10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00169.

• R. de Souza Santos, P. Ralph, A. Arshad and K-J. Stol. (2023). “Distributed Scrum: A Case Meta-analysis,” In Association for Computing Machinery 56, 4, pp. 1-37, doi: 10.1145/3626519.  

• R. de Souza Santos, G. Adisaputri and P. Ralph. (2023). “Post-pandemic Resilience of Hybrid Software Teams,” In Proceedings of the 16^th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-11.