10. IEEE METRICS 2004: Chicago, Illinois, USA

10th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2004), 11-17 September 2004, Chicago, IL, USA. IEEE Computer Society 2004, ISBN 0-7695-2129-0 BibTeX

Studies of Maintenance and Evolution

Andrea Capiluppi, Maurizio Morisio, Juan F. Ramil:
The Evolution of Source Folder Structure in actively evolved Open Source Systems. 2-13
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Birgit Geppert, Frank Rößler:
Effects of Refactoring Legacy Protocol Implementations: A Case Study. 14-25
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Nikolaos Tsantalis, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, George Stephanides, Ignatios S. Deligiannis:
Probabilistic Evaluation of Object-Oriented Systems. 26-33
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Theory and Measurement

Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Rita Scognamiglio:
Measuring XML Document Similarity: A Case Study for Evaluating Information Extraction Systems. 36-45
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Sandro Morasca:
On the Definition and Use of Aggregate Indices for Nominal, Ordinal, and Other Scales. 46-57
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Mark Harman, John A. Clark:
Metrics Are Fitness Functions Too. 58-69
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Component-Based Software Engineering

Jingyue Li, Finn Olav Bjørnson, Reidar Conradi, Vigdis By Kampenes:
An Empirical Study of Variations in COTS-based Software Development Processes in Norwegian IT Industry. 72-83
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Hean Chin Yeoh, James Miller:
COTS Acquisition Process: Incorporating Business Factors in COTS Vendor Evaluation Taxonomy. 84-95
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Trung T. Dinh-Trong, James M. Bieman:
Open Source Software Development: A Case Study of FreeBSD. 96-105
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Data Analysis Methods

Per Jönsson, Claes Wohlin:
An Evaluation of k-Nearest Neighbour Imputation Using Likert Data. 108-118
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Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Naeem Seliya:
The Necessity of Assuring Quality in Software Measurement Data. 119-130
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Maureen Brown, Dennis Goldenson:
Measurement and Analysis: What Can and Does Go Wrong? 131-138
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Advances in Empirical Software Engineering

Jairus Hihn, Karen T. Lum:
Improving Software Size Estimates by Using Probabilistic Pairwise Comparison Matrices. 140-150
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Matthias M. Müller, Frank Padberg:
An Empirical Study about the Feelgood Factor in Pair Programming. 151-158
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Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Yi Liu, Naeem Seliya:
Module-Order Modeling using an Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Approach. 159-169
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Project Management

Giuliano Antoniol, Massimiliano Di Penta, Mark Harman:
A Robust Search-Based Approach to Project Management in the Presence of Abandonment, Rework, Error and Uncertainty. 172-183
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Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall:
Identifying the Causes of Poor Progress in Software Projects. 184-195
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Jyrki Kontio, Jani-Pekka Jokinen, Esa Rosendahl:
Visualizing and Formalizing Risk Information: An Experiment. 196-206
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Software Industry Surveys

Kjetil Moløkken-Østvold, Magne Jørgensen, Sinan S. Tanilkan, Hans Gallis, Anette C. Lien, Siw Elisabeth Hove:
A Survey on Software Estimation in the Norwegian Industry. 208-219
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Tore Dybå, Nils Brede Moe, Edda M. Mikkelsen:
An Empirical Investigation on Factors Affecting Software Developer Acceptance and Utilization of Electronic Process Guides. 220-231
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Juhana Hietala, Jyrki Kontio, Jani-Pekka Jokinen, Jarkko Pyysiäinen:
Challenges of Software Product Companies: Results of a National Survey in Finland. 232-243
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Empirical Studies of Inspections

Thomas Thelin, Carina Andersson, Per Runeson, Nina Dzamashvili-Fogelström:
A Replicated Experiment of Usage-Based and Checklist-Based Reading. 246-256
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Beatriz Bernárdez, Marcela Genero, Amador Durán, Miguel Toro:
A Controlled Experiment for Evaluating a Metric-Based Reading Technique for Requirements Inspection. 257-268
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Filippo Lanubile, Teresa Mallardo, Fabio Calefato, Christian Denger, Marcus Ciolkowski:
Assessing the Impact of Active Guidance for Defect Detection: A Replicated Experiment. 269-279
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Software Size Measurement

Giovanni Cantone, Davide Pace, Giuseppe Calavaro:
Applying Function Point to Unified Modeling Language: Conversion Model and Pilot Study. 280-291
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Shinji Kusumoto, Fumikazu Matsukawa, Katsuro Inoue, Shigeo Hanabusa, Yuusuke Maegawa:
Estimating Effort by Use Case Points: Method, Tool and Case Study. 292-299
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Angélica Toffano Calazans, Káthia Marçal de Oliveira, Rildo Ribeiro dos Santos:
Adapting Function Point Analysis to Estimate Data Mart Size. 300-311
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Assessment

Michael Berry, D. Ross Jeffery, Aybüke Aurum:
Assessment of Software Measurement: An Information Quality Study. 314-325
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Maurizio Morisio, Marco Torchiano, Giovanni Argentieri:
Assessing Quantitatively a Programming Course. 326-336
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Guy Saward, Tracy Hall, Trevor Barker:
Assessing Usability through Perceptions of Information Scent. 337-346
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Industry Experience Paper

Diane Manlove: Achieving Statistical Process Control in Software Development: Practical SPC Examples. BibTeX
Harvey P. Siy: The Long Term Impact of Domain Engineering on Software Quality and Change Effort. BibTeX
John D. Powell: Determining Defect Trends and Identifying Critical Discriminators: A Case Study. BibTeX

Effort Prediction for Web Development

Emilia Mendes, Barbara A. Kitchenham:
Further Comparison of Cross-Company and Within-Company Effort Estimation Models for Web Applications. 348-357
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Silvia Mara Abrahão, Geert Poels, Oscar Pastor:
Evaluating a Functional Size Measurement Method for Web Applications: An Empirical Analysis. 358-369
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Paul Umbers, Gail Miles:
Resource Estimation for Web Applications. 370-381
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Defect Analysis

Walid Abdelmoez, Diaa Eldin M. Nassar, Mark Shereshevsky, Nicholay Gradetsky, Rajesh Gunnalan, Hany H. Ammar, Bo Yu, Ali Mili:
Error Propagation In Software Architectures. 384-393
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Swapna S. Gokhale:
Software Failure Rate and Reliability Incorporating Repair Policies. 394-404
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Adam Geras, Michael R. Smith, James Miller:
A Prototype Empirical Evaluation of Test Driven Development. 405-416
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