Organisational problems in industry have evoked increased interest in empirical methodologies in the broader software engineering community. In particular, the human role in softw...
Spreadsheets are one of the most commonly used types of programs in the world, and it is important that they be sufficiently dependable. To help end users who create spreadsheets ...
Some free software and open source projects have been extremely successful in the past. The success of a project is often related to the number of developers it can attract: a larg...
A large number of metrics have been proposed for measuring properties of object-oriented software such as size, inheritance, cohesion and coupling. We have been investigating whic...
The starting point for software evolution is usually a change request, expressing the new or updated requirements on the delivered system. The requirements specified in a change ...
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Mariano Ceccato, P...