Successful software development and management depends not only on the technologies, methods and processes employed but also on the judgments and decisions of the humans involved....
Robert Feldt, Lefteris Angelis, Richard Torkar, Ma...
Several empirical studies have been carried out with college students as subjects in the last few years. Researchers often use these studies to pilot experiments before they are c...
Jeffrey Carver, Maria Letizia Jaccheri, Sandro Mor...
In this article we summarize the strengths and weaknesses of empirical research in software engineering. We argue that in order to improve the current situation we must create bet...
Dewayne E. Perry, Adam A. Porter, Lawrence G. Vott...
Recently the awareness of the importance of replicating studies has been growing in the empirical software engineering community. The results of any one study cannot simply be ext...
Forrest Shull, Victor R. Basili, Jeffrey Carver, J...
This paper proposes dialog-based protocol for the study of the cognitive activities during software development and evolution. The dialog-based protocol, derived from the idea of ...