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IWPC
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
An Empirical Study of the Use of Friends in C++ Software
A commonly held belief is that the friend construct in C++ is a violation of encapsulation. However, little empirical analysis of its use has taken place to provide evidence to su...
Michael English, Jim Buckley, Tony Cahill, Kristia...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
15 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Study of Testing File-System-Dependent Software with Mock Objects
Unit testing is a technique of testing a single unit of a program in isolation. The testability of the unit under test can be reduced when the unit interacts with its environment....
Madhuri R. Marri, Tao Xie, Nikolai Tillmann, Jonat...
ISESE
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
An empirical investigation on the visualization of temporal uncertainties in software engineering project planning
The success of software projects depends on the ability of a human planner to understand the relationships of tasks and their temporal uncertainty and hence the visualization ther...
Stefan Biffl, Bettina Thurnher, G. Goluch, Dietmar...
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
15 years 9 months ago
An Empirical Study of an Informal Knowledge Repository in a Medium-Sized Software Consulting Company
Numerous studies have been conducted on design and architecture of knowledge repositories. This paper addresses the need for looking at practices where knowledge repositories are ...
Emil Røyrvik, Torgeir Dingsøyr
METRICS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Experiences from Conducting Semi-structured Interviews in Empirical Software Engineering Research
Many phenomena related to software development are qualitative in nature. Relevant measures of such phenomena are often collected using semi-structured interviews. Such interviews...
Siw Elisabeth Hove, Bente Anda