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ASWEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 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
CHI
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Patterns of Change in Design Metaphor: A Case Study
Although design metaphors play an important role in many software projects, their influence on system functionality, project methodology and the interactions among members of the ...
William A. Stubblefield
ICSM
2002
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
The Information Gathering Strategies of Software Maintainers
In examining software maintenance processes for improvement opportunities, an obvious choice is information flow. Obtaining accurate, up-to-date, and useful information about a sy...
Carolyn B. Seaman
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
On the difficulty of replicating human subjects studies in software engineering
Replications play an important role in verifying empirical results. In this paper, we discuss our experiences performing a literal replication of a human subjects experiment that ...
Jonathan Lung, Jorge Aranda, Steve M. Easterbrook,...
ISPW
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Coping with the Cone of Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of the SAIV Process Model
There is large uncertainty with the software cost in the early stages of software development due to requirement volatility, incomplete understanding of product domain, reuse oppor...
Da Yang, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Qing Wang, Mings...