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OOPSLA
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Detecting Defects in Object-Oriented Designs: Using Reading Techniques to Increase Software Quality
Inspections can be used to identify defects in software artifacts. In this way, inspection methods help to improve software quality, especially when used early in software develop...
Guilherme Travassos, Forrest Shull, Michael Freder...
ISESE
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Replicating Software Engineering Experiments: Addressing the Tacit Knowledge Problem
Recently the awareness of the importance of replicating studies has been growing in the empirical software engineering community. The results of any one study cannot simply be ext...
Forrest Shull, Victor R. Basili, Jeffrey Carver, J...
WCRE
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Enriching Reverse Engineering with Semantic Clustering
Understanding a software system by just analyzing the structure of the system reveals only half of the picture, since the structure tells us only how the code is working but not w...
Adrian Kuhn, Stéphane Ducasse, Tudor G&icir...
ICECCS
2008
IEEE
111views Hardware» more  ICECCS 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
A Framework for Software Engineering Experimental Replications
Experimental replications are very important to the advancement of empirical software engineering. Replications are one of the key mechanisms to confirm previous experimental find...
Manoel G. Mendonça, José Carlos Mald...
GECCO
2005
Springer
146views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
An empirical study of the robustness of two module clustering fitness functions
Two of the attractions of search-based software engineering (SBSE) derive from the nature of the fitness functions used to guide the search. These have proved to be highly robust...
Mark Harman, Stephen Swift, Kiarash Mahdavi