Abstract In this paper we question the problem of a software engineering researcher, who in his daily work, has to deal with researching, teaching and learning activities at the sa...
We describe the activities of the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research. We highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our researc...
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappa...
Software is developed for and in a vast number of contexts. Some software systems are small in size; some large. Some systems are developed by small teams; some large. Some projec...
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Gail C. Murphy, William G....
Software engineering researchers solve problems of several different kinds. To do so, they produce several different kinds of results, and they should develop appropriate evidence...
Synthesizing the evidence from a set of studies that spans many countries and years, and that incorporates a wide variety of research methods and theoretical perspectives, is prob...