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SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Understanding context: creating a lasting impact in experimental software engineering research
Software is developed for and in a vast number of contexts. Some software systems are small in size; some large. Some systems are developed by small teams; some large. Some projec...
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Gail C. Murphy, William G....
CSCW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Empirical software engineering at Microsoft Research
We describe the activities of the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research. We highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our researc...
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappa...
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Validation methods for calibrating software effort models
COCONUT calibrates effort estimation models using an exhaustive search over the space of calibration parameters in a COCOMO I model. This technique is much simpler than other effo...
Tim Menzies, Daniel Port, Zhihao Chen, Jairus Hihn...
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Software Development Techniques and Practices
Investigations of software development practices, processes, and techniques frequently report separately on the costs and benefits of a phenomenon under study, but rarely adequate...
Hakan Erdogmus
DSN
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Robust Software - No More Excuses
Software developers identify two main reasons why software systems are not made robust: performance and practicality. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of general technique...
John DeVale, Philip Koopman