Successful software engineering requires experience and acknowledgment of complexity, including that which leads designers to recognize ambiguity within the software design descri...
Ken Blaha, Alvaro E. Monge, Dean Sanders, Beth Sim...
In this paper we report results of an informal field study of a software development team conducted during an eight week internship at the NASA/Ames Research Center. The team deve...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Gloria...
COCONUT calibrates effort estimation models using an exhaustive search over the space of calibration parameters in a COCOMO I model. This technique is much simpler than other effo...
Tim Menzies, Daniel Port, Zhihao Chen, Jairus Hihn...
This paper reports on results from a pilot study that used Bloom’s Taxonomy to observe cognition levels during software inspections conducted by undergraduate computer science a...
David A. McMeekin, Brian R. von Konsky, Elizabeth ...
Investigations of software development practices, processes, and techniques frequently report separately on the costs and benefits of a phenomenon under study, but rarely adequate...