Many phenomena related to software development are qualitative in nature. Relevant measures of such phenomena are often collected using semi-structured interviews. Such interviews...
Software metrics should support managerial decision making in software projects. We explain how traditional metrics approaches, such as regression-based models for cost estimation...
Norman E. Fenton, William Marsh, Martin Neil, Patr...
— Requirements changes during software development pose a risk to cost, schedule and quality while at the same time providing an opportunity to add value. Provision of a generic ...
Experimental replications are very important to the advancement of empirical software engineering. Replications are one of the key mechanisms to confirm previous experimental find...
The high cost of software maintenance could potentially be reduced by automatically improving the design of object-oriented programs without altering their behaviour. We have const...