There is a growing interest in empirical study in software engineering, both for validating mature technologies and for guiding improvements of less-mature technologies. This pape...
A key element of any approach to meeting the climate change challenge is the ability to improve operational efficiency in a pervasive fashion. The notion of a business process is a...
In this paper, we describe our Computer Science Program Assessment (COMPASS) project. COMPASS uses open-source software tools to support the development and analysis of course por...
The management of knowledge and experience are key means by which systematic software development and process improvement occur. Within the domain of Software Engineering (SE), qu...
Software Process Improvement needs sound empirical data gathered from a range of empirical studies such as controlled experiments or case studies. However, conducting empirical st...