In order to draw valid conclusions when aggregating evidence it is important to describe the context in which industrial studies were conducted. This paper structures the context ...
In this paper we present initial findings from an empirical study that has been conducted with 13 marketdriven software companies based in Recife, Brazil. The objective of the stu...
In many areas of software engineering, empirical studies are playing an increasingly important role. This stems from the fact that software technologies are often based on heurist...
Software Engineering (SE) is a field without too much historic background. The youth of the SE discipline is resulted in an immaturity of this research field and SE research still ...
Defect-occurrence projection is necessary for the development of methods to mitigate the risks of software defect occurrences. In this paper, we examine user-reported software def...
Paul Luo Li, Mary Shaw, James D. Herbsleb, Bonnie ...