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ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
On establishing a benchmark for evaluating static analysis alert prioritization and classification techniques
Benchmarks provide an experimental basis for evaluating software engineering processes or techniques in an objective and repeatable manner. We present the FAULTBENCH v0.1 benchmar...
Sarah Smith Heckman, Laurie Williams
ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Phase distribution of software development effort
Effort distribution by phase or activity is an important but often overlooked aspect compared to other steps in the cost estimation process. Poor effort allocation is among the ma...
Ye Yang, Mei He, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Barry W. B...
ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Why do programmers avoid metrics?
Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and organizational issues a...
Medha Umarji, Carolyn B. Seaman
ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Defect categorization: making use of a decade of widely varying historical data
This paper describes our experience in aggregating a number of historical datasets containing inspection defect data using different categorization schemes. Our goal was to make u...
Carolyn B. Seaman, Forrest Shull, Myrna Regardie, ...