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ISESE
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
'Bad Practice' or 'Bad Methods' -- Are Software Engineering and Ethnographic Discourses Incompatible?
Organisational problems in industry have evoked increased interest in empirical methodologies in the broader software engineering community. In particular, the human role in softw...
Kari Rönkkö, Olle Lindeberg, Yvonne Ditt...
XPU
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Empirical Evidence Principle and Joint Engagement Practice to Introduce XP
Bringing software process change to an organisation is a real challenge. The authors have shown a sample attempt to carry out a process change and then reflected on its results and...
Lech Madeyski, Wojciech Biela
GECCO
2006
Springer
161views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
An empirical investigation of how and why neutrality affects evolutionary search
The effects of neutrality on evolutionary search have been considered in a number of interesting studies, the results of which, however, have been contradictory. Some researchers ...
Edgar Galván López, Riccardo Poli
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Software is data too
Software systems are designed and engineered to process data. However, software is data too. The size and variety of today's software artifacts and the multitude of stakehold...
Andrian Marcus, Tim Menzies
ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 11 days ago
A human study of patch maintainability
Identifying and fixing defects is a crucial and expensive part of the software lifecycle. Measuring the quality of bug-fixing patches is a difficult task that affects both func...
Zachary P. Fry, Bryan Landau, Westley Weimer