In order to draw valid conclusions when aggregating evidence it is important to describe the context in which industrial studies were conducted. This paper structures the context ...
In an investigating study to trace the productivity changes of a commercial software project, which uses incremental and iterative development model, we've found evidence tha...
Thomas Tan, Qi Li, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Mei He...
In an empirical study of fourteen widely used open source PHP web applications, we found that the vulnerability density of the aggregate code base decreased from 8.88 vulnerabilit...
James Walden, Maureen Doyle, Grant A. Welch, Micha...
Software development is a complex and error-prone task. An important factor during the development of complex systems is the understanding of the dependencies that exist between d...
Despite the critical role of software modifiability, it has no universally accepted measurement model. Measuring modifiability in terms of maintenance effort is problematic becaus...