The knowledge and skills of software engineers are perhaps the most important factors in determining the success of software development. Thus, we seek to identify the professiona...
We describe the activities of the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research. We highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our researc...
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappa...
One purpose of empirical software engineering is to enable an understanding of factors that influence software development. Surveys are an appropriate empirical strategy to gather...
Teade Punter, Marcus Ciolkowski, Bernd G. Freimut,...
Many phenomena related to software development are qualitative in nature. Relevant measures of such phenomena are often collected using semi-structured interviews. Such interviews...
Problems related to interactions between components is a sign of problems with the software architecture of the system and are often costly to fix. Thus it is very desirable to id...
Catherine Stringfellow, C. D. Amory, Dileep Potnur...