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ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
Introducing the evaluation of complexity in functional size measurement: a UML-based approach
Functional Size Measures are often used for effort estimation. However, these measures do not take into account the amount and complexity of elaboration required, concentrating in...
Luigi Lavazza, Gabriela Robiolo
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
Exploring the use of crowdsourcing to support empirical studies in software engineering
The power and the generality of the findings obtained through empirical studies are bounded by the number and type of participating subjects. In software engineering, obtaining a ...
Kathryn T. Stolee, Sebastian G. Elbaum
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Strengthening the empirical analysis of the relationship between Linus' Law and software security
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Evaluating the suitability of a measurement repository for statistical process control
Software organizations have increased their interest on software process improvement (SPI). In high maturity levels, SPI involves implementing statistical process control (SPC), w...
Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Ana Regina Rocha, Rica...
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Object oriented design pattern decay: a taxonomy
Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
Travis Schanz, Clemente Izurieta
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Synthesizing evidence in software engineering research
Synthesizing the evidence from a set of studies that spans many countries and years, and that incorporates a wide variety of research methods and theoretical perspectives, is prob...
Daniela Cruzes, Tore Dybå
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
A comprehensive characterization of NLP techniques for identifying equivalent requirements
Though very important in software engineering, linking artifacts of the same type (clone detection) or of different types (traceability recovery) is extremely tedious, error-prone...
Davide Falessi, Giovanni Cantone, Gerardo Canfora
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Effects of the number of developers on code quality in open source software: a case study
Eleven open source software projects written in C/C++ were analyzed to determine if the number of committing developers impacts code quality. We use cyclomatic complexity, lines o...
Brandon Norick, Justin Krohn, Eben Howard, Ben Wel...
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Gender differences and programming environments: across programming populations
Although there has been significant research into gender regarding educational and workplace practices, there has been little investigation of gender differences pertaining to pro...
Margaret M. Burnett, Scott D. Fleming, Shamsi Iqba...
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
An empirical investigation into a large-scale Java open source code repository
Getting insight into different aspects of source code artifacts is increasingly important
Mark Grechanik, Collin McMillan, Luca DeFerrari, M...