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Predicting good requirements for in-house development projects 预测内部开发项目的良好需求

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering Pub Date : 2006-09-21 DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159758

J. Verner, Karl Cox, S. Bleistein

引用次数: 24

Is there a future for empirical software engineering? 经验软件工程有未来吗?

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering Pub Date : 2006-09-21 DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159735

V. Basili

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引用次数: 12

An empirical study of developers views on software reuse in statoil ASA statoil ASA开发人员软件重用观点的实证研究

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering Pub Date : 2006-09-21 DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159770

Odd Petter N. Slyngstad, Anita Gupta, R. Conradi, Parastoo Mohagheghi, Harald Rønneberg, E. Landre

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引用次数: 29

An empirical comparison between pair development and software inspection in Thailand 结对开发与泰国软件检验的实证比较

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering Pub Date : 2006-09-21 DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159749

Monvorath Phongpaibul, B. Boehm

引用次数: 37

Eliciting better quality architecture evaluation scenarios: a controlled experiment on top-down vs. bottom-up 引出更好质量的架构评估场景:自上而下与自下而上的对照实验

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering Pub Date : 2006-09-21 DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159779

M. Babar, S. Biffl

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引用次数: 10

The evolution of FreeBSD and linux FreeBSD和linux的演变

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering Pub Date : 2006-09-21 DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159765

C. Izurieta, J. Bieman

引用次数: 51

Predicting fault-prone components in a java legacy system 预测java遗留系统中容易出错的组件

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering Pub Date : 2006-09-21 DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159738

E. Arisholm, L. Briand

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引用次数: 192

Successful software project and products: An empirical investigation 成功的软件项目和产品:一项实证调查

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering Pub Date : 2006-09-21 DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159757

Richard Berntsson-Svensson, A. Aurum

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引用次数: 68

Comparing the fault-proneness of new and modified code: an industrial case study 比较新代码和修改代码的错误倾向:一个工业案例研究

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering Pub Date : 2006-09-21 DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159737

Piotr Tomaszewski, Lars-Ola Damm

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引用次数: 6

Why People Believe Weird Things: Science, Pseudoscience, and Critical Thinking 为什么人们相信奇怪的事情:科学、伪科学和批判性思维

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2004.1334888

M. Shermer

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