Objective: We studied what are the characteristics of high performing software testers in the industry. Method: We conducted an exploratory case study, collecting data through recorded interviews of one development manager and three testers in each of ...

In this poster we introduce an ongoing empirical study on the effects of using predominant security issues along with agile methodologies. As part of this empirical study, current security issues related to and applicable to agile methodologies such as ...

Jeffery and Votta [1] consider that the central task of an empirical software engineering (ESE) study is the use of data to address research questions. And as the outcome of empirical studies, experience is reported. When more and more empirical studies ...

Various design patterns have become known for increasing the adaptability of software, so reducing the cost of maintenance and evolution. In this study the focus was placed on the performance cost of using such patterns with the research question 'How ...

The challenge of developing more usable Web applications has promoted the emergence of several usability evaluation methods. However, there is a lack of empirically validated methods that can properly be integrated during the early stages of Web ...

In case of resolved software change requests (SCRs), the names of impacted source files are known. In this paper, we tackle the question whether it is possible to use this information in order to predict the files that have to be changed whenever a new ...

We report on a preliminary case study to examine software safety risk in the early design phase of the NASA Constellation spaceflight program. Our goal is to provide NASA quality assurance managers with information regarding the ongoing state of ...

This paper reports on the ongoing experience of applying a variant of the GQM+Strategies approach to non-software development domains (e.g., military training domain). However, we found that it is not directly possible to apply the GQM+Strategies ...

Software practitioner motivation has been recognised as a key factor in system quality, yet much of what we know about practitioner motivation is based on research conducted decades ago. In this paper, we present the analysis of data collected from 23 ...

Skill level and productivity varies substantially between developers. In current staffing practices, however, developers are largely treated as the same. In this paper, an empirical analysis of the tow formulations of assignment of developers to tasks ...

Collaboration between research groups can be quite difficult. Differences in hardware, software, and operating environments can lead to differences in results or even errors. Overcoming these difficulties can take significant time, or even result in ...

Background: In spite of their limited scope, measures reflecting adherence to schedule, budget and specification continue to dominate the assessment and reporting of project outcomes.

Objective: We set out to explore how the parties involved in the ...

BACKGROUND: In reality project managers are constrained by the incremental nature of data collection. Specifically, project observations are accumulated one project at a time. Likewise within-project data are accumulated one stage or phase at a time. ...

Nowadays several Computer-Aided Software Engineering environments exploit Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) techniques in order to generate a single user interface for a given computing platform or multi-platform user interfaces for several computing ...

Software organizations have increased their interest on software process improvement (SPI). In high maturity levels, SPI involves implementing statistical process control (SPC), which requires measures and data that are suitable for this context. ...

Trust is one of the key factors that determines success or failure of any software project. However, achieving and maintaining trust in distributed software projects, when team members are geographically, temporally and culturally distant from each ...

This paper reports on an empirical study that investigates the effects of the personality trait of neuroticism on the academic performance of students who practiced pair programming during one academic semester. The experiment was conducted at The ...

Business value analysis (BVA) quantifies the factors that provide value and cost to an organization. It aims at capturing value, controlling risks, and capitalizing on opportunities. GQM⁺Strategies is an approach designed to aid in the definition and ...

Background: The identification of alternative technologies - which is one step of the formal decision-making process -- results in a judgment on whether a technology is considered as a candidate for the further decision-making process. A model has been ...

Applying agile methodology in large software development projects introduces many challenges. For example, one may expect that the combination of autonomous teams and the necessity for an overall organizational control structure may lead to conflicts, ...