Even though software is developed by humans, research in software engineering primarily focuses on the technologies, methods and processes they use while disregarding the importan...
Robert Feldt, Richard Torkar, Lefteris Angelis, Ma...
Software testing and software fault tolerance are two major techniques for developing reliable software systems, yet limited empirical data are available in the literature to eval...
Michael R. Lyu, Zubin Huang, Sam K. S. Sze, Xia Ca...
The popularity of empirical methods in software engineering research is on the rise. Surveys, experiments, metrics, case studies, and field studies are examples of empirical method...
In this article we summarize the strengths and weaknesses of empirical research in software engineering. We argue that in order to improve the current situation we must create bet...
Dewayne E. Perry, Adam A. Porter, Lawrence G. Vott...
The number of scientific publications is constantly increasing, and the results published on Empirical Software Engineering are growing even faster. Some software engineering publ...
Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, M...