We want to explore and analyse design decisions that influence maintainability of software. Software maintainability is important because the effort expended on changes and fixes ...
One purpose of empirical software engineering is to enable an understanding of factors that influence software development. Surveys are an appropriate empirical strategy to gather...
Teade Punter, Marcus Ciolkowski, Bernd G. Freimut,...
The topic of this full-day tutorial was the correct use and interpretation of case studies as an empirical research method. Using an equal blend of lecture and discussion, it gave...
Dewayne E. Perry, Susan Elliott Sim, Steve M. East...
This paper describes an empirical mapping study, which was designed to identify what aspects of Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) are empirically evaluated, in which conte...
Since 1996 the USC Center for Software Engineering has been accumulating a large amount of software process experience through many realclient project software engineering practice...
Zhihao Chen, Daniel Port, Yue Chen, Barry W. Boehm