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ICSE
1997
IEEE-ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Communication Metrics for Software Development
† We present empirical evidence that metrics on communication artifacts generated by groupware tools can be used to gain significant insight into the development process that pro...
Bernd Brügge, Allen H. Dutoit
ISSRE
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Prioritization of Regression Tests using Singular Value Decomposition with Empirical Change Records
During development and testing, changes made to a system to repair a detected fault can often inject a new fault into the code base. These injected faults may not be in the same f...
Mark Sherriff, Mike Lake, Laurie Williams
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Code Smells on Software Change-proneness
—Code smells are poor implementation choices, thought to make object-oriented systems hard to maintain. In this study, we investigate if classes with code smells are more change-...
Foutse Khomh, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaë...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A case study on value-based requirements tracing
Project managers aim at keeping track of interdependencies between various artifacts of the software development lifecycle, to find out potential requirements conflicts, to better...
Matthias Heindl, Stefan Biffl
IWPC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Empirical Evaluation of a UML Sequence Diagram with Adornments to Support Understanding of Thread Interactions
Programs that use multi-threaded concurrency are known to be difficult to design. Moreover, research in computer-science education suggests that concurrency and synchronization co...
Shaohua Xie, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt