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IWPC
2002
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
Comprehension of Object-Oriented Software Cohesion: The Empirical Quagmire
It is a little over ten years since Chidamber and Kemerer's obje ct-oriented (OO) metric suite which included the Lack of Cohesion Of Methods (LCOM) metric was rst proposed 9...
Steve Counsell, Emilia Mendes, Stephen Swift
IWPC
2002
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
Fused Data-Centric Visualizations for Software Evolution Environments
During software evolution, several different facets of the system need to be related to one another at multiple levbstraction. Current software evolution tools have limited capabi...
Jens H. Jahnke, Hausi A. Müller, Andrew Walen...
IWPC
2002
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
Architecture Recovery of Dynamically Linked Applications: A Case Study
Most previously published case studies in architecture recovery have been performed on statically linked software systems. Due to the increase in use of middleware technologies, s...
Igor Ivkovic, Michael W. Godfrey
ISESE
2002
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
The Appropriateness of Gutman's Means-End Chain Model in Software Evaluation
The primary objective of this paper was to examine the extent to which Gutman’s Means-End Chain Model can be used to describe the influences given to the choice of characteristi...
Bernard Wong
ISESE
2002
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
Conducting Realistic Experiments in Software Engineering
An important goal of most empirical software engineering research is the transfer of research results to industrial applications. Two important obstacles for this transfer are the...
Dag I. K. Sjøberg, Bente Anda, Erik Arishol...
ISESE
2002
IEEE
14 years 25 days 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...
ISESE
2002
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
Elimination of Crucial Faults by a New Selective Testing Method
Recent software systems contain a lot of functions to provide various services. According to this tendency, software testing becomes more difficult than before and cost of testing...
Masayuki Hirayama, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Jiro Okayasu,...
ISESE
2002
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
'Bad Practice' or 'Bad Methods' -- Are Software Engineering and Ethnographic Discourses Incompatible?
Organisational problems in industry have evoked increased interest in empirical methodologies in the broader software engineering community. In particular, the human role in softw...
Kari Rönkkö, Olle Lindeberg, Yvonne Ditt...
ISESE
2002
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
Verification and Validation in Industry -- A Qualitative Survey on the State of Practice
Verification and validation activities take a substantial share of project budgets and need improvements. This is an accepted truth, but the current practices are seldom assessed ...
Carina Andersson, Per Runeson
ICSM
2002
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
ICBMC: An Improved Cohesion Measure for Classes
Class cohesion could be used to evaluate the design quality of classes, to develop test measures for objectoriented software and to restructure poorly designed classes. Among a nu...
Yuming Zhou, Baowen Xu, Jianjun Zhao, Hongji Yang