Our activities in software engineering typically fall into one of three categories, (1) to invent new phenomena, (2) to understand existing phenomena, and (3) to facilitate inspir...
— Increasingly, licensing and safety regulatory bodies require the suppliers of software-intensive, safety-critical systems to provide an explicit software safety case – a stru...
This paper proposes the unification of two complementary approaches to software process research. The two approaches can be characterized as macroprocess research, focused on pheno...
BACKGROUND – the systematic review is becoming a more commonly employed research instrument in empirical software engineering. Before undue reliance is placed on the outcomes of...
Stephen G. MacDonell, Martin J. Shepperd, Barbara ...
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 ...