ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
This paper explores the cognitive limits of estimation in the context of software cost estimation. Two heuristics, representativeness and anchoring, motivate two experiments invol...
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
Information retrieval is an important problem in any evidence-based discipline. Although Evidencebased Software Engineering (EBSE) is not immune to this fact, this question has no...
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
This short paper reports a pilot experiment conducted with master students, in which we investigated whether Fit test cases were helpful to clarify change requirements in a mainte...
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
Several studies have been conducted to determine if company-specific cost models deliver better prediction accuracy than cross-company cost models. However, mixed results have lef...
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
In 2005, we studied the development effort and effect of quality comparisons between software development with Fagan's inspection and pair development. Three experiments were...
ECLIPSE
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
In evolutionary software development, knowing how design evolves with features can be valuable in guiding future projects. It helps answer questions like "How much upfront de...
ISSTA
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
In program debugging, finding a failing run is only the first step; what about correcting the fault? Can we automate the second task as well as the first? The AutoFix-E tool au...
ISSTA
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Whitebox fuzzing is a novel form of security testing based on dynamic symbolic execution and constraint solving. Over the last couple of years, whitebox fuzzers have found many ne...
ISSTA
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
ISSTA
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
When developers change a program, regression tests can fail not only due to faults in the program but also due to outof-date test code that does not reflect the desired behavior ...