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Salome Maro

Salome Maro

Lecturer

College of Information and Communication Technologies

Computer Science and Engineering

Biography

Dr. Salome Maro holds a PhD in Computer Science and a Master’s in Software Engineering from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Dar es Salaam. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the College of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Dar es Salaam.

With extensive expertise in software engineering, Dr. Maro specializes in software traceability, software development processes, and program comprehension. She has significant experience in system analysis and design, as well as business process automation. Her research also focuses on leveraging technology to support teaching and learning.

Since December 2023, Dr. Maro has been serving as the Acting Director of ICT at the University of Dar es Salaam and the Director of ICT from April 2025.

Research Interest

Software Engineering Processes 

Machine Learning and AI 

ICT in Education  (EdTech)

Software Artifacts Traceability 

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Projects

Swahili BookBot 

The research uses a mobile application called Bookbot whose mission is to enhance Tanzania’s children's reading abilities by supporting students in developing strong Kiswahili reading foundations. Bookbot acts as a digital reading tutor, merging speech recognition technology with an extensive reading program designed for school children to attain better literacy outcomes. By offering reporting tools for educators to track a child's reading progress and encourage ongoing growth, Bookbot establishes the foundation for lifelong learning and achievement. 

Harnessing AI for Automatic Generation of Multimedia Enhanced Educational Content: A Focus on STEM Subjects in Primary School Education 

This is a research project (funded by COSTECH)  aims to develop multimedia enhanced educational content for primary schools in Tanzania. It is an 18-month project which aims to investigate how Artificial intelligence can be leveraged to create interesting learning materials in a cost-effective manner. The aim is to eliminate the need to use expensive multimedia equipment and software when creating educational multimedia content. 

Strengthening safety consideration in software engineering practices in Tanzania. 

The project is about developing a professional course to equip software safety professionals with skills on developing safety critical system. The project is funded by the Royal academy of Engineering of the UK. In the project, I participate as a software development expert and consultant. Some of the tasks undertaken are needs assessment, curriculum development and content development. 

Publications

 

  1. Binamungu, Leonard Peter, Salome Maro, Godfrey Justo, and Jasson Ndanguzi. "Assessing Software Safety Knowledge and Skill Gaps in Tanzania." In 2024 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2024. 
  2. Binamungu, Leonard Peter, and Salome Maro. "Behaviour driven development: A systematic mapping study." Journal of Systems and Software (2023): 111749. 
  3. Maro, Salome, Aron Kondoro, Björn Haßler, Joel Mtebe, and Jamie Proctor. "Deployment of Offline Learning Management Systems: Comparing the Performance of Selected Micro-Servers in Tanzania." Journal of Learning for Development 10, no. 2 (2023): 280-296. 
  4. Maro, Salome, Aron Kondoro, and Joel Mtebe. "Using Mentimeter to Enhance Students’ Engagement in Large University Classes-A Survey of Students’ Perceptions." In 2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2023.
  5. Kondoro, Aron, Salome Maro, Joel Mtebe, Jamie Proctor, Aneth Komba, and Björn HAßLER. "Towards Improving the Accessibility and Usability of a Mobile-based Learning Management System for Blind Primary School Teachers." In 2023 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa), pp. 1-10. IEEE, 2023. 
  6. Maro, Salome, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Paolo Bozzelli, and Henry Muccini. "TracIMo: a traceability introduction methodology and its evaluation in an Agile development team." Requirements Engineering (2021): 1-29 
  7. Maro, Salome. "Improving software traceability tools and processes." (2020). 
  8. Maro, Salome, Jan-Philipp Steghofer, Eric Knauss, Jennifer Horkof, Rashida Kasauli, Rebekka Wohlrab, Jesper Lysemose Korsgaard, Florian Wartenberg, Niels Jørgen Strøm, and Ruben Alexandersson. "Managing Traceability Information Models: Not such a simple task after all?." IEEE Software(2020). 
  9. Maro, Salome, Emil Sundklev, Carl-Oscar Persson, Grischa Liebel, and Jan-Philipp Steghöfer. "Impact of gamification on trace link vetting: a controlled experiment." In International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, pp. 90-105. Springer, Cham, 2019. 
  10. Maro, Salome, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Jane Hayes, Jane Cleland-Huang, and Miroslaw Staron. "Vetting automatically generated trace links: What information is useful to human analysts?." In 2018 IEEE 26th international requirements engineering conference (RE), pp. 52-63. IEEE, 2018. 
  11. Maro, Salome, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, and Miroslaw Staron. "Software traceability in the automotive domain: Challenges and solutions." Journal of Systems and Software 141 (2018): 85-110
  12. Maro, Salome, Anthony Anjorin, Rebekka Wohlrab, and Jan-Philipp Steghöfer. "Traceability maintenance: Factors and guidelines." In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, pp. 414-425. 2016. 
  13. Maro, Salome, and Jan-Philipp Steghöfer. "Capra: A configurable and extendable traceability management tool." In 2016 IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), pp. 407-408. IEEE, 2016. 
  14. Maro, Salome, Anthony Anjorin, Rebekka Wohlrab, and Jan-Philipp Steghöfer. "Traceability maintenance: Factors and guidelines." In Proceedings of the 31st -425. 2016. 

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