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PASTE
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
An empirical framework for comparing effectiveness of testing and property-based formal analysis
Today, many formal analysis tools are not only used to provide certainty but are also used to debug software systems – a role that has traditional been reserved for testing tool...
Jeremy S. Bradbury, James R. Cordy, Jürgen Di...
IWPC
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Designing your Next Empirical Study on Program Comprehension
The field of program comprehension is characterized by both the continuing development of new tools and techniques and the adaptation of existing techniques to address program co...
Massimiliano Di Penta, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Eilee...
ESEM
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Strengthening the empirical analysis of the relationship between Linus' Law and software security
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Role Migration and Advancement Processes in OSSD Projects: A Comparative Case Study
Socio-technical processes have come to the forefront of recent analysis of the open source software development (OSSD) world. Interest in making these processes explicit is mounti...
Chris Jensen, Walt Scacchi
ICSE
2004
IEEE-ACM
15 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Comparison of Dynamic Impact Analysis Algorithms
Impact analysis -- determining the potential effects of changes on a software system -- plays an important role in software engineering tasks such as maintenance, regression testi...
Alessandro Orso, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, James La...