The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the de facto standard for object-oriented software analysis and design modeling. However, few empirical studies exist which investigate the c...
Wojciech J. Dzidek, Erik Arisholm, Lionel C. Brian...
We performed an empirical study to characterize factors that affect which bugs get fixed in Windows Vista and Windows 7, focusing on factors related to bug report edits and relat...
Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagap...
We describe the activities of the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research. We highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our researc...
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappa...
— This paper describes a controlled experiment of student programmers performing maintenance tasks on a C++ program. The goal of the study is to assess the maintenance size, effo...
Vu Nguyen, Barry W. Boehm, Phongphan Danphitsanuph...
Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM) provides support for separating concerns at the design level. Even though most AOM approaches provide means to execute the composition of the modula...
Aram Hovsepyan, Riccardo Scandariato, Stefan Van B...