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 ...
In examining software maintenance processes for improvement opportunities, an obvious choice is information flow. Obtaining accurate, up-to-date, and useful information about a sy...
Empirical studies that use software repository artifacts have become popular in the last decade due to the ready availability of open source project archives. In this paper, we su...
In order to draw valid conclusions when aggregating evidence it is important to describe the context in which industrial studies were conducted. This paper structures the context ...
Service engineering and service-oriented architecture as an integration and platform technology is a recent approach to software systems integration. Software quality aspects such ...