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COMPSAC
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Design Structural Stability Metrics and Post-Release Defect Density: An Empirical Study
This paper empirically explores the correlations between a suite of structural stability metrics for object-oriented designs and post-release defect density. The investigated stab...
Mahmoud O. Elish, David C. Rine
ISPW
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Coping with the Cone of Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of the SAIV Process Model
There is large uncertainty with the software cost in the early stages of software development due to requirement volatility, incomplete understanding of product domain, reuse oppor...
Da Yang, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Qing Wang, Mings...
ESEM
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Evidence relating to Object-Oriented software design: A survey
Context: There is little empirical knowledge of the effectiveness of the object-oriented paradigm. Objectives: To conduct a systematic review of the literature describing empirica...
John Bailey, David Budgen, Mark Turner, Barbara Ki...
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GECCO
2005
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
An empirical study of the robustness of two module clustering fitness functions
Two of the attractions of search-based software engineering (SBSE) derive from the nature of the fitness functions used to guide the search. These have proved to be highly robust...
Mark Harman, Stephen Swift, Kiarash Mahdavi
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Validity concerns in software engineering research
Empirical studies that use software repository artifacts have become popular in the last decade due to the ready availability of open source project archives. In this paper, we su...
Hyrum K. Wright, Miryung Kim, Dewayne E. Perry