Functional Size Measures are often used for effort estimation. However, these measures do not take into account the amount and complexity of elaboration required, concentrating in...
The power and the generality of the findings obtained through empirical studies are bounded by the number and type of participating subjects. In software engineering, obtaining a ...
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Software organizations have increased their interest on software process improvement (SPI). In high maturity levels, SPI involves implementing statistical process control (SPC), w...
Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Ana Regina Rocha, Rica...
Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
Synthesizing the evidence from a set of studies that spans many countries and years, and that incorporates a wide variety of research methods and theoretical perspectives, is prob...
Though very important in software engineering, linking artifacts of the same type (clone detection) or of different types (traceability recovery) is extremely tedious, error-prone...
Eleven open source software projects written in C/C++ were analyzed to determine if the number of committing developers impacts code quality. We use cyclomatic complexity, lines o...
Brandon Norick, Justin Krohn, Eben Howard, Ben Wel...
Although there has been significant research into gender regarding educational and workplace practices, there has been little investigation of gender differences pertaining to pro...
Margaret M. Burnett, Scott D. Fleming, Shamsi Iqba...