Because of software’s increasing dynamism and the heterogeneity of execution environments, the results of in-house testing and maintenance are often not representative of the wa...
Statistical power is an inherent part of empirical studies that employ significance testing and is essential for the planning of studies, for the interpretation of study results, ...
We investigate the trade off between investing effort in improving the features of a research environment that increases productivity and investing such effort in actually conduct...
Juan C. Quiroz, Anil Shankar, Sergiu M. Dascalu, S...
Measuring structural design properties of a software system, such as coupling, cohesion, or complexity, is a promising approach towards early quality assessments. To use such meas...
Little research has been conducted to date on the specific topic of the tailoring of systems development methods. Two related research areas--contingency factors research and metho...