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Tracking line changes in source code repositories 跟踪源代码存储库中的行更改

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652597

F. Fontana, M. Zanoni

引用次数: 2

Monitoring bottlenecks in achieving release readiness: a retrospective case study across ten OSS projects 监控实现发布准备中的瓶颈:跨十个OSS项目的回顾性案例研究

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652549

S. Alam, S. Shahnewaz, Dietmar Pfahl, G. Ruhe

{"title":"Monitoring bottlenecks in achieving release readiness: a retrospective case study across ten OSS projects","authors":"S. Alam, S. Shahnewaz, Dietmar Pfahl, G. Ruhe","doi":"10.1145/2652524.2652549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2652524.2652549","url":null,"abstract":"Context: Not releasing software on time can cause substantial loss in revenue. Continuous awareness of the product release status is required. Release readiness is a time-dependent attribute of the status of the product release, which aggregates the degree of satisfaction of a portfolio of release process and product measures.\u0000 Goal: At different stages of a release cycle, the goal is to understand frequencies and pattern of occurrence of factors affecting project success by restricting the status of release readiness (called bottlenecks).\u0000 Method: As a form of explorative case study research, we analyzed ten open source software (OSS) projects taken from the GitHub repository. As a retrospective study covering a period of 28 weeks, we monitored eight release readiness attributes and identified their impact on release readiness over time across the ten projects.\u0000 Results: Feature completion rate, Bug fixing rate, and Features implemented were observed as the most frequent bottlenecks. The most frequent transition between bottlenecks is from Pull-request completion rate to Bug fixing rate. With the exception of Pull-request completion rate, no significant differences were found in occurrence of bottleneck factors between early and late stage of the release cycle.\u0000 Conclusions: We received an initial understanding of the most frequent bottleneck factors for release readiness and their likelihood of subsequent occurrence. This is intended to guide the effort spent on improving release engineering.","PeriodicalId":124452,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement","volume":"89 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133719955","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}

引用次数: 7

Improving requirements glossary construction via clustering: approach and industrial case studies 通过聚类改进需求术语表的构建:方法和行业案例研究

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652530

Chetan Arora, M. Sabetzadeh, L. Briand, Frank Zimmer

{"title":"Improving requirements glossary construction via clustering: approach and industrial case studies","authors":"Chetan Arora, M. Sabetzadeh, L. Briand, Frank Zimmer","doi":"10.1145/2652524.2652530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2652524.2652530","url":null,"abstract":"Context. A glossary is an important part of any software requirements document. By making explicit the technical terms in a domain and providing definitions for them, a glossary serves as a helpful tool for mitigating ambiguities.\u0000 Goal. A necessary step for building a glossary is to decide upon the glossary terms and to identify their related terms. Doing so manually is a laborious task. Our objective is to provide automated support for identifying candidate glossary terms and their related terms. Our work differs from existing work on term extraction mainly in that, instead of providing a flat list of candidate terms, our approach clusters the terms by relevance.\u0000 Method. We use case study research as the basis for our empirical investigation.\u0000 Results. We present an automated approach for identifying and clustering candidate glossary terms. We evaluate the approach through two industrial case studies; one study concerns a satellite software component, and the other -- an evidence management tool for safety certification.\u0000 Conclusions. Our results indicate that over requirements documents: (1) our approach is more accurate than other existing methods for identifying candidate glossary terms; this makes it less likely that our approach will miss important glossary terms. (2) Clustering provides an effective basis for grouping related terms; this makes clustering a useful support tool for selection of glossary terms and associating these terms with their related terms.","PeriodicalId":124452,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114216891","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}

引用次数: 19

Process mining can be applied to software too! 过程挖掘也可以应用到软件中!

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652583

V. Rubin, A. Mitsyuk, I. Lomazova, Wil M.P. van der Aalst

{"title":"Process mining can be applied to software too!","authors":"V. Rubin, A. Mitsyuk, I. Lomazova, Wil M.P. van der Aalst","doi":"10.1145/2652524.2652583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2652524.2652583","url":null,"abstract":"Modern information systems produce tremendous amounts of event data. The area of process mining deals with extracting knowledge from this data. Real-life processes can be effectively discovered, analyzed and optimized with the help of mature process mining techniques. There is a variety of process mining case studies and experience reports from such business areas as healthcare, public, transportation and education. Although nowadays, these techniques are mostly used for discovering business processes.\u0000 The goal of this industrial paper is to show that process mining can be applied to software too. Here we present and analyze our experiences on applying process mining in different productive software systems used in the touristic domain. Process models and user interface workflows underlie the functional specifications of the systems we experiment with. When the systems are utilized, user interaction is recorded in event logs. After applying process mining methods to these logs, process and user interface flow models are automatically derived. These resulting models provide insight regarding the real usage of the software, motivate the changes in the functional specifications, enable usability improvements and software redesign.\u0000 Thus, with the help of our examples we demonstrate that process mining facilitates new forms of software analysis. The user interaction with almost every software system can be mined in order to improve the software and to monitor and measure its real usage.","PeriodicalId":124452,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement","volume":"23 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126169964","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}

引用次数: 68

A systematic mapping study on testing technique experiments: has the situation changed since 2000? 测试技术实验的系统测绘研究:2000年以来情况发生了变化吗?

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652569

Jorge E. González, Natalia Juristo Juzgado, S. Vegas

引用次数: 6

Cooperation between information system development and operations: a literature review 信息系统开发与运营之间的合作:文献综述

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652598

Floris Erich, C. Amrit, M. Daneva

引用次数: 34

A controlled experiment to evaluate the effects of mindfulness in software engineering 一项评估正念在软件工程中的效果的对照实验

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652539

B. Bernárdez, Amador Durán Toro, J. A. Parejo, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés

{"title":"A controlled experiment to evaluate the effects of mindfulness in software engineering","authors":"B. Bernárdez, Amador Durán Toro, J. A. Parejo, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés","doi":"10.1145/2652524.2652539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2652524.2652539","url":null,"abstract":"Context. Many reports support the fact that some psycho--social aspects of software engineers are key factors for the quality of the software development process and its resulting products. Based on the experience of some of the authors after more than a year of practising mindfulness---a meditation technique aimed to increase clearness of mind and awareness---we guessed that it could be interesting to empirically evaluate whether mindfulness affects positively not only the behaviour but also the professional performance of software engineers.\u0000 Goal. In this paper, we present a quasi--experiment carried out at the University of Seville to evaluate whether Software Engineering & Information Systems students enhance their conceptual modelling skills after the continued daily practice of mindfulness during four weeks.\u0000 Method. Students were divided into two groups: one group practised mindfulness, and the other---the control group---were trained in public speaking. In order to study the possible cause--and--effect relationship, effectiveness (the rate of model elements correctly identified) and efficiency (the number of model elements correctly identified per unit of time) of the students developing conceptual modelling exercises were measured before and after taking the mindfulness and public speaking sessions.\u0000 Results. The experiment results have revealed that the students who practised mindfulness have become more efficient in developing conceptual models than those who attended the public speaking sessions. With respect to effectiveness, some enhancement have been observed, although not as significant as in the case of efficiency.\u0000 Conclusions. This rising trend in effectiveness suggests that the number of sessions could have been insufficient and that a longer period of sessions could have also enhanced effectiveness significantly.","PeriodicalId":124452,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130649148","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}

引用次数: 23

Impact of process conformance on the effects of test-driven development 过程一致性对测试驱动开发效果的影响

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652526

D. Fucci, Burak Turhan, M. Oivo

{"title":"Impact of process conformance on the effects of test-driven development","authors":"D. Fucci, Burak Turhan, M. Oivo","doi":"10.1145/2652524.2652526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2652524.2652526","url":null,"abstract":"Context: One limitation of the empirical studies about test-driven development (TDD) is knowing whether the developers followed the advocated test-code-refactor cycle. Research dealt with the issue of process conformance only in terms of internal validity, while investigating the role of other confounding variables that might explain the controversial effects of TDD. None of the research included process conformance as a fundamental part of the analysis.\u0000 Goal: We aim to examine the impact of process conformance on the claimed effects of TDD on external quality, developers' productivity and test quality.\u0000 Method: We used data collected during a previous study to create regression models in which the level of process conformance was used to predict external quality, productivity, and tests thoroughness.\u0000 Result: Based on our analysis of the available data (n = 22), we observe that neither quality (p -- value = 0.21), productivity (p -- value = 0.80), number of tests (p -- value = 0.39) nor coverage (p -- value = 0.09) was correlated with the level of TDD process conformance.\u0000 Conclusion: While based on a small sample, we raise concerns about how TDD is interpreted. We also question whether the cost of strictly following TDD will pay-off in terms of external quality, productivity, and tests thoroughness.","PeriodicalId":124452,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130747974","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}

引用次数: 14

The effect of evolutionary coupling on software defects: an industrial case study on a legacy system 演化耦合对软件缺陷的影响:遗留系统的工业案例研究

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652577

Serkan Kirbas, A. Sen, Bora Caglayan, A. Bener, Rasim Mahmutogullari

引用次数: 25

Measuring shared understanding in software project teams using pathfinder networks 使用探路者网络测量软件项目团队中的共同理解

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652543

B. Braunschweig, C. Seaman

{"title":"Measuring shared understanding in software project teams using pathfinder networks","authors":"B. Braunschweig, C. Seaman","doi":"10.1145/2652524.2652543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2652524.2652543","url":null,"abstract":"[Context] Software engineering teams must have a shared understanding of the system design in order to work independently but successfully integrate their code. Success also depends on the differentiated skill and experience of the team members. These issues of understanding are important to project success but difficult to investigate with current approaches. [Goal] To investigate this problem, we developed and evaluated a technique to measure the degree of shared understanding and identify areas of similarity and difference. Adapted from the Pathfinder technique for evaluating Team Mental Models, this is a quantitative analysis of paired comparisons of design concepts as understood by the team. [Method] We performed an empirical, mixed-methods pilot study of the technique with 5 student teams developing a semester long project. We used questionnaires and interviews to evaluate the effectiveness of the technique in measuring areas of similarity and difference. We also investigated the association between differences in understanding and problems during development. [Results] Our results support the ability of the technique to identify and measure areas of similarity and difference. There is limited support for the association between differences and poor project outcomes. [Conclusions] We find these pilot results encouraging. We will use them to refine the technique and plan to re-evaluate it with a professional software development team.","PeriodicalId":124452,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131859245","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}

引用次数: 3