2007
Predicting Subsystem Defects using Dependency Graph Complexities, Zimmermann, T., Nagappan, N., International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Trollhattan, Sweden, 2007.
Using In-Process Testing Metrics to Estimate Post-Release Field Quality of Java Programs, Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Osborne, J., International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Trollhattan, Sweden, 2007
Using Software Dependencies and Churn Metrics to Predict Field Failures: An Empirical Case Study, Nagappan, N., Ball, T., Proceedings of the Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Conference (ESEM), Madrid, Spain 2007.
Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study, Begel, A., Nagappan, N., Proceedings of the Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Conference (ESEM), Madrid, Spain 2007.
2006
Building Scalable Failure-proneness Models Using Complexity Metrics for Large Scale Software Systems Bhat, T., Nagappan, N., Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Bangalore, India, 2006.
Using Historical In-Process and Product Metrics for Early Estimation of Software Failures, Nagappan, N., Ball, T., Murphy, B., Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Raleigh, NC, 2006.
Assessing the Relationship between Software Assertions and Faults: An Empirical Investigation, Kudrjavets, G., Nagappan, N., Ball., T, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Raleigh, NC, 2006.
Evaluating the Efficacy of Test-Driven Development: Industrial Case Studies, Bhat, T., Nagappan, N., In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2006.
On the Value of Static Analysis for Fault Detection in Software, Zheng, J., Williams, L., Nagappan, N., Snipes, W., Hudepohl, J., Vouk, M., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2006.
Mining Metrics to Predict Component Failures, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball, Andreas Zeller, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, Shanghai, China, May 2006.
2005
Providing Test Quality Feedback Using Static Source Code and Automatic Test Suite Metrics, Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie Williams, Jason Osborne, Mladen Vouk, Pekka Abrahamsson, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, 2005.
Use of Relative Code Churn Measures to Predict System Defect Density, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), May 2005.
Static Analysis Tools as Early Indicators of Pre-Release Defect Density, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), May 2005.
A Software Testing and Reliability Early Warning (STREW) Metric Suite, Nagappan, N., Ph.D. Dissertation, North Carolina State University, February 2005.
Early Estimation of Software Quality Using In-Process Testing Metrics: A Controlled Case Study, Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Osborne, J., Third Software Quality Workshop, co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), pp. 46-52, May 2005, St. Louis, MO.
Early Estimation of Defect Density Using an In-Process Haskell Metrics Model, Sherriff, M., Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Advances in Model based Software Testing (A-MOST) Workshop, co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), May 2005, St. Louis, MO.
2004
Preliminary Results On Using Static Analysis Tools For Software Inspection, Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Hudepohl, J., Snipes, W., Vouk, M., Proceedings of the Fifteenth IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2004), pp 429-439, St. Malo, France. November 2004.
GERT : An Empirical Reliability Estimation and Testing Feedback Tool, Davidsson, M., Zheng, J., Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Proceedings of the Fifteenth IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2004), pp 269-280, St. Malo, France. November 2004.
Pair Learning: With an Eye Toward Future Success, Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Wiebe, E., Miller, C., Balik, S., Ferzli, M., Petlick, J., Proceedings of XP Agile Universe (XP/AU 2003), Springer LNCS 2753, pp 185-198. New Orleans, LA, August 2004.
Using In-Process Testing Metrics to Estimate Software Reliability: A Feasibility Study, Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Osborne, J., FastAbstract in supplementary proceedings, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2004), pp21-22, St. Malo France, November 2004.
Toward a Software Testing and Reliability Early Warning Metric Suite, Nagappan, N.Doctoral Symposium, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004), pp 60-62. Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004.
Software Reliability Estimation using Internal Code Metrics,Nagappan, N., ACM Student Research Contest (SRC) co-located with ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education, (SIGCSE 2004), Norfolk, VA, March 2004.
2003
Towards a Metric Suite for Early Software Reliability Assessment, Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., FastAbstract in supplementary proceedings, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering. (ISSRE 2003), pp 238-239. Denver, CO. November 2003.
A Software Reliability Estimation Framework for Extreme Programming, Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Student Paper in supplementary proceedings, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering. (ISSRE 2003), pp 315-316. Denver, CO. November 2003.
“Good Enough” Software Reliability Estimation Plug-in for Eclipse, Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., IBM-Eclipse Technology Exchange (ETX) Workshop, Co-located with Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2003), October 2003. pp 36-40. Anaheim, CA, October 2003.
Building Pair Programming Knowledge through a Family of Experiments, Williams, L., McDowell, C., Nagappan, N., Fernald, J., Werner, L., Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, (ISESE 2003) pp 143-152. Rome, Italy, September 2003.
Virtual Teaming: Experiments and Experiences with Distributed Pair Programming, Stotts, D., Williams, L.A., Nagappan, N., Baheti, P.P., Jen, D.S., Jackson, A., Proceedings of XP Agile Universe (XP/AU 2003), Springer LNCS 2753, pp 129-141. New Orleans, LA, August 2003.
Pair Programming in Introductory Programming Labs, Weibe, E., Williams, L. A., Petlick, J., Nagappan, N., Balik, S., Miller, C., Ferzli, M., Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, (ASEE 2003), 2003.
Improving the CS1 Experience with Pair Programming, Nagappan, N., Williams,L., Ferzli, M., Yang, K., Wiebe,E., Miller,C., Balik,S., Proceedings of ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education, (SIGCSE 2003), pp 359-362. Reno, NV, February 2003.
