Tracing is a dynamic analysis technique to continuously capture events of interest on a running program. The occurrence of a statement, the invocation of a function, and the trigg...
Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM) provides support for separating concerns at the design level. Even though most AOM approaches provide means to execute the composition of the modula...
Aram Hovsepyan, Riccardo Scandariato, Stefan Van B...
A consequence of the growing number of empirical studies in software engineering is the need to adopt systematic approaches to assessing and aggregating research outcomes in order...
Pearl Brereton, Barbara A. Kitchenham, David Budge...
We investigate the trade off between investing effort in improving the features of a research environment that increases productivity and investing such effort in actually conduct...
Juan C. Quiroz, Anil Shankar, Sergiu M. Dascalu, S...
There is a growing interest in empirical study in software engineering, both for validating mature technologies and for guiding improvements of less-mature technologies. This pape...