The power and the generality of the findings obtained through empirical studies are bounded by the number and type of participating subjects. In software engineering, obtaining a ...
Even though software is developed by humans, research in software engineering primarily focuses on the technologies, methods and processes they use while disregarding the importan...
Robert Feldt, Richard Torkar, Lefteris Angelis, Ma...
Based on many years of teaching software engineering, I present a number of lessons I have learned over the years. I do so in the form of a series of myths, the reverse of which c...
Software testing and software fault tolerance are two major techniques for developing reliable software systems, yet limited empirical data are available in the literature to eval...
Michael R. Lyu, Zubin Huang, Sam K. S. Sze, Xia Ca...
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...