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ASWEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An Empirical Study of Evolution of Inheritance in Java OSS
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Emal Nasseri, Steve Counsell, M. Shepperd
ICFEM
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Study of Structural Constraint Solving Techniques
Structural constraint solving allows finding object graphs that satisfy given constraints, thereby enabling software reliability tasks, such as systematic testing and error recove...
Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, Sarfraz Khurshid
SIGSOFT
1998
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Further Empirical Studies of Test Effectiveness
This paper reports on an empirical evaluation of the fault-detecting ability of two white-box software testing techniques: decision coverage (branch testing) and the all-uses data...
Phyllis G. Frankl, Oleg Iakounenko
IWPC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An empirical study on the comprehension of stereotyped UML class diagram layouts
An empirical study is presented that investigates how stereotype based layouts impact the comprehension of UML class diagrams. This work continues a previous study using eye-track...
Bonita Sharif, Jonathan I. Maletic
ICSM
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Comparison of Test Suite Reduction Techniques for User-Session-Based Testing of Web Applications
Automated cost-effective test strategies are needed to provide reliable, secure, and usable web applications. As a software maintainer updates an application, test cases must accu...
Sara Sprenkle, Sreedevi Sampath, Emily Gibson, Lor...