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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
On the difficulty of replicating human subjects studies in software engineering
Replications play an important role in verifying empirical results. In this paper, we discuss our experiences performing a literal replication of a human subjects experiment that ...
Jonathan Lung, Jorge Aranda, Steve M. Easterbrook,...
RE
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Design Science, Engineering Science and Requirements Engineering
For several decades there has been a debate in the computing sciences about the relative roles of design and empirical research, and about the contribution of design and research ...
Roel Wieringa, J. M. G. Heerkens
ISCI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Managing software process measurement: A metamodel-based approach
The evaluation of software processes is nowadays a very important issue due to the growing interest of software companies in the improvement of the productivity and quality of del...
Francisco García, Manuel A. Serrano, Jos&ea...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
An empirical study on the evolution of design patterns
Design patterns are solutions to recurring design problems, conceived to increase benefits in terms of reuse, code quality and, above all, maintainability and resilience to change...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Co...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
An empirical study of the effects of test-suite reduction on fault localization
Fault-localization techniques that utilize information about all test cases in a test suite have been presented. These techniques use various approaches to identify the likely fau...
Yanbing Yu, James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold