Often software systems are developed by organizations consisting of many teams of individuals working together. Brooks states in the Mythical Man Month book that product quality i...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Victor R. Bas...
The concept of software cohesion in both the procedural and object-oriented paradigm is well known and documented. What is not so well known or documented is the perception of wha...
Statistical power is an inherent part of empirical studies that employ significance testing and is essential for the planning of studies, for the interpretation of study results, ...
It is widely believed that distributed software development is riskier and more challenging than collocated development. Prior literature on distributed development in software en...
Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar T. ...
A commonly held belief is that the friend construct in C++ is a violation of encapsulation. However, little empirical analysis of its use has taken place to provide evidence to su...
Michael English, Jim Buckley, Tony Cahill, Kristia...