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....
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...
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...
Investigations of software development practices, processes, and techniques frequently report separately on the costs and benefits of a phenomenon under study, but rarely adequate...
Software developers identify two main reasons why software systems are not made robust: performance and practicality. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of general technique...