Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development practice that has been used sporadically for decades. With this practice, a software engineer cycles minute-by-minute betwee...
Nachiappan Nagappan, E. Michael Maximilien, Thirum...
The replication of experiments is a key undertaking in SE. Successful replications enable a discipline’s body of knowledge to grow, as the results are added to those of earlier ...
Sira Vegas, Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Ana Mar&iacut...
The field of program comprehension is characterized by both the continuing development of new tools and techniques and the adaptation of existing techniques to address program co...
Massimiliano Di Penta, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Eilee...
Impact analysis -- determining the potential effects of changes on a software system -- plays an important role in software engineering tasks such as maintenance, regression testi...
Alessandro Orso, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, James La...
Systematic reviews are one of the key building blocks of evidence-based software engineering. Current guidelines for such reviews are, for a large part, based on standard meta-ana...