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WCRE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Experimental Paradigm in Reverse Engineering: Role, Challenges, and Limitations
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...
Lionel C. Briand
ICSM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Playing roles in design patterns: An empirical descriptive and analytic study
This work presents a descriptive and analytic study of classes playing zero, one, or two roles in six different design patterns (and combinations thereof). First, we answer three...
Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéne...
REFSQ
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Information Flow Between Requirement Artifacts. Results of an Empirical Study
Abstract. Requirements engineering is still an area of software engineering in which theory and practice greatly differ. This work presents the results of an empirical study of ar...
Stefan Winkler
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
On the difficulty of replicating human subjects studies in software engineering
Replications play an important role in verifying empirical results. In this paper, we discuss our experiences performing a literal replication of a human subjects experiment that ...
Jonathan Lung, Jorge Aranda, Steve M. Easterbrook,...