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Fabian Fagerholm

Assistant Professor

T313 Dept. Computer Science

Assistant Professor

Full researcher profile

https://research.aalto.fi/...

fabian.fagerholm@aalto.fi

Phone number

+358505170413

Areas of expertise

software engineering, human-computer interaction, developer experience, continuous experimentation, 113 Computer and information sciences

Honors and awards

Journal of Systems and Software Most Cited Articles 2020

Article among the most cited articles in Journal of Systems and Software since 2017.

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Computer Science Jan 2020

EUROMICRO Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2017) Distinguished Paper Award

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Computer Science Aug 2017

Journal of Systems and Software Best Paper Award 2018

For the paper "What happens when software developers are (un)happy"

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Computer Science Apr 2019

Certificate of Appreciation: 2016 Star Reviewer

For performing four or more peer reviews of articles in 2016.

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Computer Science Mar 2017

Teacher of the Year

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Computer Science Dec 2013

Nokia Foundation Scholarship

Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Computer Science Nov 2013

Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2014) Best Paper Award

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Computer Science May 2014

Research groups

Computer Science Professors, Assistant Professor
Computer Science - Software and Service Engineering (SSE) - Research area, Assistant Professor
Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction and Design (HCID) - Research area, Assistant Professor
Professorship Fagerholm Fabian, Assistant Professor

Publications

Data-Limited Continuous Experimentation (dlCE): A Literature Review

Stanislav Chren, Fabian Fagerholm, Elizabeth Bjarnason, Johan Linåker, Saima Rafi, Bettina Lehtelä, Per Runeson, Marjo Kauppinen 2025 Software Business - 15th International Conference, ICSOB 2024, Proceedings

Student Perceptions of Group Formation in Software Engineering Courses

Fabian Fagerholm, Stanislav Chren, Lassi Haaranen 2025 Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 37th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

An Investigation of Low-Code Development Adoption in a Finnish IT Consulting Firm

Dongmei Gao, Fabian Fagerholm 2025 Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Pre-Release Experimentation in Indie Game Development: An Interview Survey

Johan Linåker, Elizabeth Bjarnason, Fabian Fagerholm 2025 Software Business - 15th International Conference, ICSOB 2024, Proceedings

Measuring End-user Developers’ Episodic Experience of a Low-code Development Platform

Dongmei Gao, Fabian Fagerholm 2024 E-Informatica Software Engineering Journal

It’s about time: How to study intertemporal choice in systems design

Fabian Fagerholm, Andres De los Ríos, Carol Cárdenas Castro, Jenny Gil, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Christoph Becker 2023 Information and Software Technology

Synthesizing research on programmers’ mental models of programs, tasks and concepts — A systematic literature review

Ava Heinonen, Bettina Lehtelä, Arto Hellas, Fabian Fagerholm 2023 Information and Software Technology

Understanding initial API comprehension

Ava Heinonen, Fabian Fagerholm 2023 Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM 31st International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2023

The human side of Software Engineering Teams: an investigation of contemporary challenges

Marco Hoffmann, Daniel Méndez, Fabian Fagerholm, Anton Luckhardt 2023 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

"Agile X"—Inconsistent and Loosely Defined Terminology Hampers Fundamental Software Agility Research

Petri Kettunen, Fabian Fagerholm, Tomi Männistö 2023

An investigation of causes and effects of trust in Boundary Artefacts

Raquel Ouriques, Fabian Fagerholm, Daniel Mendez, Baldvin Gislason Bern 2023 Information and Software Technology

A taxonomy of assets for the development of software-intensive products and services

Ehsan Zabardast, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, Tony Gorschek, Darja Šmite, Emil Alégroth, Fabian Fagerholm 2023 Journal of Systems and Software

Cognition in Software Engineering: A Taxonomy and Survey of a Half-Century of Research

Fabian Fagerholm, Michael Felderer, Davide Fucci, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Bogdan Marculescu, Markus Martini, Lars Göran Wallgren Tengberg, Robert Feldt, Bettina Lehtelä, Balazs Nagyvaradi, Jehan Khattak 2022 ACM Computing Surveys

The Viability of Continuous Experimentation in Early-Stage Software Startups: A Descriptive Multiple-Case Study

Vihtori Mäntylä, Bettina Lehtelä, Fabian Fagerholm 2022 Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 23rd International Conference, PROFES 2022, Proceedings

Towards Measurable Motivation in Software Development

Niladri Saha, Abdullah Israr, Outi Sievi-Korte, Fabian Fagerholm 2022 ICSEA 2022 : The Seventeenth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances

Message from the CHASE 2021 Chairs

Rashina Hoda, Fabian Fagerholm, Anita Sarma, Sabrina Marczak 2021 2021 IEEE/ACM 13th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)

Industrial Agile Transformations Lacking Business Emphasis: Results from a Nordic Survey Study

Petri Kettunen, Maarit Laanti, Fabian Fagerholm, Tommi Mikkonen, Tomi Männistö 2021 Software Business - 11th International Conference, ICSOB 2020, Proceedings

EMIP: The eye movements in programming dataset

Roman Bednarik, Teresa Busjahn, Agostino Gibaldi, Alireza Ahadi, Maria Bielikova, Martha Crosby, Kai Essig, Fabian Fagerholm, Ahmad Jbara, Raymond Lister, Pavel Orlov, James Paterson, Bonita Sharif, Teemu Sirkiä, Jan Stelovsky, Jozef Tvarozek, Hana Vrzakova, Ian van der Linde 2020 Science of Computer Programming

Biometric Measurement in Software Engineering

Fabian Fagerholm, Thomas Fritz 2020 Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering

On the Differences in Time That Students Take to Write Solutions to Programming Problems

Fabian Fagerholm, Arto Hellas 2020 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2020 - Proceedings

Dimensions of Consistency in GSD: Social Factors, Structures and Interactions

Outi Sievi-Korte, Fabian Fagerholm, Kari Systä, Tommi Mikkonen 2020 Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 21st International Conference, PROFES 2020, Proceedings

Patterns of user involvement in experiment-driven software development

Sezin Yaman, Fabian Fagerholm, Myriam Munezero, Tomi Männistö, Tommi Mikkonen 2020 Information and Software Technology

Temporal discounting in technical debt

Christoph Becker, Fabian Fagerholm, Rahul Mohanani, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou 2019 Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt, TechDebt 2019

Temporal Discounting in Software Engineering

Fabian Fagerholm, Christoph Becker, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Stefanie Betz, Leticia Duboc, Birgit Penzenstadler, Rahul Mohanani, Colin C. Venters 2019 Proceedings - 13th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2019

Happiness and the Productivity of Software Engineers

Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm 2019 Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

Agile in the Era of Digitalization

Petri Kettunen, Maarit Laanti, Fabian Fagerholm, Tommi Mikkonen 2019 Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 20th International Conference, PROFES 2019, Proceedings

Finnish enterprise agile transformations

Petri Kettunen, Maarit Laanti, Fabian Fagerholm, Tommi Mikkonen, Tomi Männistö 2019 Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops - XP 2019 Workshops, Proceedings

Työkaluja ja menetelmiä globaalien kompetenssien oppimisen tukemiseen

Minna Lakkala, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Veera Kallunki, Tomi Männistö, Sari-Anna Pulkkinen, Fabian Fagerholm, Philip Dexter, Veli-Matti Harjula, Mari Tervaniemi, Auli Toom 2019

Designing and implementing an environment for software start-up education

Fabian Fagerholm, Arto Hellas, Matti Luukkainen, Kati Kyllönen, Sezin Yaman, Hanna Mäenpää 2018 Journal of Systems and Software

What happens when software developers are (un)happy

Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson 2018 Journal of Systems and Software

Guidelines for using empirical studies in software engineering education

Fabian Fagerholm, Marco Kuhrmann, Jürgen Münch 2017 PeerJ Computer Science

Patterns for designing and implementing an environment for software start-up education

Fabian Fagerholm, Arto Hellas, Matti Luukkainen, Kati Kyllonen, Sezin Yaman, Hanna Maenpaa 2017 Proceedings - 43rd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2017

The RIGHT model for Continuous Experimentation

Fabian Fagerholm, Alejandro Sanchez Guinea, Hanna Mäenpää, Jürgen Münch 2017 Journal of Systems and Software

Consequences of unhappiness while developing software

Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson 2017 Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering, SEmotion 2017

On the unhappiness of software developers

Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson 2017 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2017

Unhappy developers

Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson 2017 Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017

Entering an ecosystem

Hanna Maenpaa, Fabian Fagerholm, Myriam Munezero, Terhi Kilamo, Tommi Mikkonen 2017 CEUR Workshop Proceedings

The many hats and the broken binoculars

Hanna Maenpaa, Myriam Munezero, Fabian Fagerholm, Tommi Mikkonen 2017 Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2017

Continuous Experimentation Cookbook

Myriam Munezero, Sezin Yaman, Fabian Fagerholm, Petri Kettunen, Hanna Mäenpää, Simo Mäkinen, Juha Tiihonen, Leah Riungu-Kalliosaari, Antti-Pekka Tuovinen, Markku Oivo, Jürgen Münch, Tomi Männistö 2017

Introducing continuous experimentation in large software-intensive product and service organisations

Sezin Gizem Yaman, Myriam Munezero, Jürgen Münch, Fabian Fagerholm, Ossi Syd, Mika Aaltola, Christina Palmu, Tomi Männistö 2017 Journal of Systems and Software

Notifying and Involving Users in Experimentation

Sezin Yaman, Fabian Fagerholm, Myriam Munezero, Hanna Maenpaa, Tomi Mannisto 2017 Proceedings - 11th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2017

Flow, intrinsic motivation, and developer experience in software engineering

Kati Kuusinen, Helen Petrie, Fabian Fagerholm, Tommi Mikkonen 2016 Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming - 17th International Conference, XP 2016, Proceedings

Supporting management of hybrid OSS communities - A stakeholder analysis approach

Hanna Mäenpää, Tero Kojo, Myriam Munezero, Fabian Fagerholm, Terhi Kilamo, Mikko Nurminen, Tomi Männistö 2016 Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 17th International Conference, PROFES 2016, Proceedings

Transitioning towards continuous experimentation in a large software product and service development organisation – A case study

Sezin Gizem Yaman, Fabian Fagerholm, Myriam Munezero, Jürgen Münch, Mika Aaltola, Christina Palmu, Tomi Männistö 2016 Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 17th International Conference, PROFES 2016, Proceedings

Performance Alignment Work: How Software Developers Experience the Continuous Adaptation of Team Performance in Lean and Agile Environments

Fabian Fagerholm, Marko Ikonen, Petri Kettunen, Jürgen Münch, Virpi Roto, Pekka Abrahamsson 2015 Information and Software Technology