Research in the fields of software quality, maintainability and evolution requires the analysis of large quantities of data, which often originate from open source software proje...
Software engineering researchers solve problems of several different kinds. To do so, they produce several different kinds of results, and they should develop appropriate evidence...
One of the challenging research problems in validating a software engineering methodology (SEM), and a part of its validation process, is to answer “How to fairly collect, presen...
The collection and use of evidence in Software Engineering practice and research are essential elements in the development of the discipline. This paper discusses the need for evi...
Ray Dawson, Phil Bones, Briony J. Oates, Pearl Bre...
The number of scientific publications is constantly increasing, and the results published on Empirical Software Engineering are growing even faster. Some software engineering publ...
Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, M...