First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007)最新文献

{"title":"Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study","authors":"Andrew Begel, Nachiappan Nagappan","doi":"10.1109/ESEM.2007.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2007.12","url":null,"abstract":"Agile development methodologies have been gaining acceptance in the mainstream software development community. While there are numerous studies of agile development in academic and educational settings, there has been little detailed reporting of the usage, penetration and success of agile methodologies in traditional, professional software development organizations. We report on the results of an empirical study conducted at Microsoft to learn about agile development and its perception by people in development, testing, and management. We found that one-third of the study respondents use agile methodologies to varying degrees, and most view it favorably due to improved communication between team members, quick releases and the increased flexibility of agile designs. The scrum variant of agile methodologies is by far the most popular at Microsoft. Our findings also indicate that developers are most worried about scaling agile to larger projects (greater than twenty members), attending too many meetings and the coordinating agile and non-agile teams.","PeriodicalId":124420,"journal":{"name":"First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132826623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Snapshot of the State of Practice in Software Development for Medical Devices","authors":"C. Denger, Raimund L. Feldmann, Martin Höst, Christin Lindholm, F. Shull","doi":"10.1109/ESEM.2007.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2007.54","url":null,"abstract":"The medical device industry is a constantly growing domain which makes use of more and more software products. Given the importance to this industry of dependable software components, rigorous software engineering techniques would seem to have an important role to play. However, in a recent survey of the industry we found a lower than expected rate of adoption of certain sound software engineering practices. To ensure and improve the quality of developed software products, whether they are standalone applications or embedded in complex systems, both the medical device industry as well as software engineers have to take action. Our survey is a first step in this direction and may help in identifying appropriate programs and future research topics.","PeriodicalId":124420,"journal":{"name":"First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007)","volume":"272 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129152306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the Impact of Adaptive Maintenance Process on Open Source Software Quality","authors":"D. Kozlov, Jussi Koskinen, Jouni Markkula, Markku Sakkinen","doi":"10.1109/ESEM.2007.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2007.24","url":null,"abstract":"The paper focuses on measuring and assessing the relation of adaptive maintenance process and quality of open source software (OSS). A framework for assessing adaptive maintenance process is proposed and applied. The framework consists of six sub- processes. Five OSSs with considerable number of releases have been studied empirically. Their main evolutionary and quality characteristics have been measured. The main results of the study are the following:. 1) Software maintainability is affected mostly by the activities of the 'analysis' maintenance sub-process. 2) Software testability is affected by the activities of all maintenance sub-processes. 3) Software reliability is affected mostly by the activities of the 'design' and 'delivery' maintenance sub- processes. 4) Software complexity is affected mostly by the activities of the 'problem identification', design', 'implementation' and 'test' sub-processes. 5) Software flexibility is affected mostly by the activities of the 'delivery' sub-process.","PeriodicalId":124420,"journal":{"name":"First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115029060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Static Members and Cycles in Java Software","authors":"H. Melton, E. Tempero","doi":"10.1109/ESEM.2007.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2007.25","url":null,"abstract":"The static modifier is a convenient way to make class members \"global\" in object-oriented software systems. Given this, we wondered if static members significantly contribute to the long dependency cycles among the classes that we observed in a previous empirical study of Java software. In this paper, we examine 81 open source Java applications. We find empirical evidence that classes that declare a non-private static field or method that is accessed from within another class are likely to be involved in dependency cycles.","PeriodicalId":124420,"journal":{"name":"First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125611185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building Software Cost Estimation Models using Homogenous Data","authors":"Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmermann","doi":"10.1109/ESEM.2007.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2007.34","url":null,"abstract":"Several studies have been conducted to determine if company-specific cost models deliver better prediction accuracy than cross-company cost models. However, mixed results have left the question still open for further investigation. We suspect this to be a consequence of heterogenous data used to build cross-company cost models. In this paper, we build cross-company cost models using homogenous data by grouping projects by their business sector. Our results suggest that it is worth to train models using only homogenous data rather than all projects available.","PeriodicalId":124420,"journal":{"name":"First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121048859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Helping End-User Programmers \"Engineer\" Software: an Opportunity for Empirical Researchers","authors":"Gregg Rothermel","doi":"10.1109/ESEM.2007.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2007.42","url":null,"abstract":"While much of the software that people depend on is written by professional software engineers, increasingly, important applications are being created by non-professional (end-user) programmers. Using tools such as spreadsheet environments and web authoring tools, these programmers are creating software that is being used to support significant activities and inform decisions. Such software needs to work dependably and increase user productivity, but evidence shows that it frequently does not. For example, studies have shown that a large percentage of the spreadsheets created by end-users contain faults, and data suggests that time spent maintaining web macros may actually impede their users' overall efforts. In recent years researchers have begun to address this problem, considering various approaches to adapting software engineering techniques to the realm of end-user programming. For example, researchers have sought ways to help end users test and debug spreadsheets, and to increase productivity in web macros by combining them with various software engineering devices. To make progress in this area, researchers are turning to empirical studies, in order to investigate new approaches, understand the factors that influence them, and better understand issues related to end user programmers themselves. In this talk I will present recent work being done in end-user software engineering, with a particular focus on the state of the art of empirical research in the area. I will show that there is a pressing need for further empirical work in this context, and that there are interesting questions that researchers from the ESEM community could help to answer. For example, how are end-users different from programmers, and how does that affect how we conduct the research? (Are there assumptions we make when doing studies with programmers that do not hold with end-users? What are the threats to validity when, say, we use CS students as subjects in end-user studies?) As another example, how are end-users different from each other and how does that affect study results? (The end-user community is much more diverse than the professional programmer community. What are the important context variables one needs to capture when studying them?) A concerted effort by the ESEM community on such issues could result in a substantial impact on society as a whole, and on the everyday lives of many people.","PeriodicalId":124420,"journal":{"name":"First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114906173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Observing Software Testing Practice from the Viewpoint of Organizations and Knowledge Management","authors":"Ossi Taipale, Katja Karhu, K. Smolander","doi":"10.1109/ESEM.2007.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2007.18","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this qualitative study was to understand the complex practice of software testing, and based on this understanding, to develop hypotheses on testing organizations and knowledge management. The population of the study consisted of organizational units (OUs) that develop and test technical software for automation or telecommunication domains. First, a survey of testing practices was conducted and 26 OUs were interviewed. From this sample, five OUs were further selected for an in-depth case study. The study used grounded theory as its research method and the data was collected from 41 theme-based interviews. The analysis yielded hypotheses that included that the business orientation of an OU affects testing organization, knowledge management strategy, and outsourcing of testing. Further, identifying and avoiding barriers and using enablers improve knowledge transfer between development and testing. The results of this study can be used in developing the testing organization and the knowledge management strategy of an OU.","PeriodicalId":124420,"journal":{"name":"First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130266186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Visual Text Mining approach for Systematic Reviews","authors":"V. Malheiros, E. Höhn, R. Pinho, Manoel G. Mendonça, J. Maldonado","doi":"10.1109/ESEM.2007.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2007.21","url":null,"abstract":"The software engineering research community has been adopting systematic reviews as an unbiased and fair way to assess a research topic. Despite encouraging early results, a systematic review process can be time consuming and hard to conduct. Thus, tools that help on its planning or execution are needed. This article suggests the use of visual text mining (VTM) to aid systematic reviews. A feasibility study was conducted comparing the proposed approach with a manual process. We observed that VTM can contribute to systematic review and we propose a new strategy called VTM-Based systematic review.","PeriodicalId":124420,"journal":{"name":"First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121733531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}