In this paper we present initial findings from an empirical study that has been conducted with 13 marketdriven software companies based in Recife, Brazil. The objective of the stu...
This paper proposes dialog-based protocol for the study of the cognitive activities during software development and evolution. The dialog-based protocol, derived from the idea of ...
End users develop more software than any other group of programmers, using software authoring devices such as e-mail filtering editors, by-demonstration macro builders, and spread...
Joseph R. Ruthruff, Margaret M. Burnett, Gregg Rot...
It is not an overstatement to say that the gap between software design and performance evaluation techniques has caused the misuse of the last ones by software engineers. The UML ...
In order to draw valid conclusions when aggregating evidence it is important to describe the context in which industrial studies were conducted. This paper structures the context ...