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ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Using Context Distance Measurement to Analyze Results across Studies
Providing robust decision support for software engineering (SE) requires the collection of data across multiple contexts so that one can begin to elicit the context variables that...
Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, M...
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Characterizing Software Architecture Changes: An Initial Study
With today's ever increasing demands on software, developers must produce software that can be changed without the risk of degrading the software architecture. Degraded softw...
Byron J. Williams, Jeffrey C. Carver
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
An Approach to Global Sensitivity Analysis: FAST on COCOMO
There are various models in software engineering that are used to predict quality-related aspects of the process or artefacts. The use of these models involves elaborate data coll...
Stefan Wagner
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Cognitive Limits of Software Cost Estimation
This paper explores the cognitive limits of estimation in the context of software cost estimation. Two heuristics, representativeness and anchoring, motivate two experiments invol...
Ricardo Valerdi
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Developing Search Strategies for Detecting Relevant Experiments for Systematic Reviews
Information retrieval is an important problem in any evidence-based discipline. Although Evidencebased Software Engineering (EBSE) is not immune to this fact, this question has no...
Óscar Dieste Tubío, Anna Grimá...
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
"Talking tests": a Preliminary Experimental Study on Fit User Acceptance Tests
This short paper reports a pilot experiment conducted with master students, in which we investigated whether Fit test cases were helpful to clarify change requirements in a mainte...
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Pe...
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Building Software Cost Estimation Models using Homogenous Data
Several studies have been conducted to determine if company-specific cost models deliver better prediction accuracy than cross-company cost models. However, mixed results have lef...
Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmermann
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A Replicate Empirical Comparison between Pair Development and Software Development with Inspection
In 2005, we studied the development effort and effect of quality comparisons between software development with Fagan's inspection and pair development. Three experiments were...
Monvorath Phongpaibul, Barry W. Boehm