Teaching (and therefore learning) eXtreme Programming (XP) in a university setting is difficult because of course time limitations and the soft nature of XP that requires first-ha...
Mutants are automatically-generated, possibly faulty variants of programs. The mutation adequacy ratio of a test suite is the ratio of non-equivalent mutants it is able to identif...
Akbar Siami Namin, James H. Andrews, Duncan J. Mur...
The earlier in the software process a fault is detected, the cheaper the cost of fixing the fault. Automated fault detection tools can provide developers with information througho...
Lucas Layman, Laurie A. Williams, Robert St. Amant
Because the knowledge required for the construction of a complex software system is often widely distributed among its members, programmers routinely engage in collaboration with ...
Conducting controlled experiments about programming activities often requires the use of multiple tasks of similar difficulty. In previously reported work about a controlled exper...