We present the results of a three year field study of the software development process choices made by project teams at two leading offshore vendors. In particular, we focus on th...
It is difficult to fully assess the quality of software inhouse, outside the actual time and context in which it will execute after deployment. As a result, it is common for softw...
Agile methodologies represent a ‘people’ centered approach to delivering software. This paper investigates the social processes that contribute to their success. Qualitative g...
Files, classes, or methods have frequently been investigated in recent research on co-change. In this paper, we present a first study at the level of lines. To identify line chan...
Thomas Zimmermann, Sunghun Kim, Andreas Zeller, E....
This paper proposes the unification of two complementary approaches to software process research. The two approaches can be characterized as macroprocess research, focused on pheno...