We describe the activities of the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research. We highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our researc...
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappa...
Software engineering (SE) is very different in focus from traditional computer science: it is not just about computers and software, but as much about the context in which they ar...
Abstract. Context-awareness is becoming a first class attribute of software systems. In fact, applications for mobile devices need to be aware of their context in order to adapt t...
Adoption of advanced automated SE (ASE) tools would be favored if a business case could be made that these tools are more valuable than alternate methods. In theory, software pred...
Tim Menzies, Oussama El-Rawas, Jairus Hihn, Martin...
Investigations of software development practices, processes, and techniques frequently report separately on the costs and benefits of a phenomenon under study, but rarely adequate...