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IWC
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Socio-technical systems: From design methods to systems engineering
The importance of adopting a socio-technical approach to system development is recognised by many but not widely practised. We analyse the reasons for this, considering the histor...
Gordon D. Baxter, Ian Sommerville
ISESE
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Quality vs. quantity: comparing evaluation methods in a usability-focused software architecture modification task
A controlled experiment was performed to assess the usefulness of portions of a Usability-Supporting Architectural Pattern (USAP) in modifying the design of software architectures...
Elspeth Golden, Bonnie E. John, Len Bass
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Lawful software engineering
Legislation is constantly affecting the way in which software developers can create software systems, and deliver them to their users. This raises the need for methods and tools t...
Daniel M. Germán, Jens H. Webber, Massimili...
ICSE
2012
IEEE-ACM
11 years 10 months ago
On the naturalness of software
—Natural languages like English are rich, complex, and powerful. The highly creative and graceful use of languages like English and Tamil, by masters like Shakespeare and Avvaiya...
Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su, Mark Gabe...
IWPC
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
On the Equivalence of Information Retrieval Methods for Automated Traceability Link Recovery
Abstract—We present an empirical study to statistically analyze the equivalence of several traceability recovery methods based on Information Retrieval (IR) techniques. The analy...
Rocco Oliveto, Malcom Gethers, Denys Poshyvanyk, A...