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...
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...
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...
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...
Organisational problems in industry have evoked increased interest in empirical methodologies in the broader software engineering community. In particular, the human role in softw...
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 ...