In the foreseeable future, software testing will remain one of the best tools we have at our disposal to ensure software dependability. Empirical studies are crucial to software t...
Empirical studies are crucial to gain evidence on the effects of software engineering methods and tools in defined contexts. However, empirical studies can be costly and thus need...
Context: There is little empirical knowledge of the effectiveness of the object-oriented paradigm. Objectives: To conduct a systematic review of the literature describing empirica...
John Bailey, David Budgen, Mark Turner, Barbara Ki...
This paper presents a code-revision history collection and visualization Eclipse plugin for use in empirical studies of programmers. The revision history is collected non-intrusiv...
Background: The number of reported empirical studies of Open Source Software (OSS) has continuously been increasing. However, there has been no effort to systematically review the ...
Several empirical studies have been carried out with college students as subjects in the last few years. Researchers often use these studies to pilot experiments before they are c...
Jeffrey Carver, Maria Letizia Jaccheri, Sandro Mor...
In empirical studies of Evolutionary Algorithms, it is usually desirable to evaluate and compare algorithms using as many different parameter settings and test problems as possible...
In many areas of software engineering, empirical studies are playing an increasingly important role. This stems from the fact that software technologies are often based on heurist...
We hypothesize that certain program complexities and difficulties to realize reuse potentials have their roots in weak mechanisms for generic design of today’s programming techn...