Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
Several groups in MSR are studying software engineering process and products using empirical methods. The methods range from statistical analysis of software repositories to observations of programmers at work.
Related Projects
Publications
2009
- Andrew Begel and Nachiappan Nagappan, Coordination in Large-Scale Software Development: Helpful and Unhelpful Behaviors, no. MSR-TR-2009-135, 28 September 2009
- Jorge Aranda and Gina Venolia, The Secret Life of Bugs: Going Past the Errors and Omissions in Software Repositories, in Proc. ICSE 2009, IEEE, May 2009
- Andrew Sutherland and Gina Venolia, Can Peer Code Reviews be Exploited for Later Information Needs?, in Proc. ICSE 2009, IEEE, May 2009
2008
- Andrew Begel and Nachiappan Nagappan, Pair programming: what's in it for me?, in ESEM '08: Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ACM, New York, NY, USA, October 2008
- Andrew Begel and Beth Simon, Novice Software Developers, All Over Again, in ICER '08: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computing Education Research, ACM, New York, NY, USA, September 2008
- Andrew Begel and Nachiappan Nagappan, Global Software Development: Who Does It?, in International Conference on Global Software Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, August 2008
- Lucas Layman, Nachiappan Nagappan, Sam Guckenheimer, Jeff Beehler, and Andrew Begel, Mining Software Effort Data: Preliminary Analysis of Visual Studio Team System Data, in Proceedings of the 2008 International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, ACM, New York, NY, USA, May 2008
- Andrew Begel and Beth Simon, Struggles of new college graduates in their first software development job, in Proceedings of the 39th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM, New York, NY, USA, March 2008
- Andrew Begel, Effecting Change: Coordination in Large-scale Software Development, in Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2008
2007
- Andrew Begel and Nachiappan Nagappan, Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study, in First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Metrics, IEEE Computer Society, September 2007
- Andrew J. Ko, Robert DeLine, and Gina Venolia, Information Needs in Collocated Software Development Teams, in ICSE '07: Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, May 2007
- Mauro Cherubini, Gina Venolia, Rob DeLine, and Andrew J. Ko, Let's go to the whiteboard: how and why software developers use drawings, in CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, May 2007
2006
- Thomas D. LaToza, Gina Venolia, and Robert DeLine, Maintaining mental models: a study of developer work habits, in ICSE '06: Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering, ACM, New York, NY, USA, May 2006
2005
- Gina D. Venolia, Robert DeLine, and Thomas LaToza, Software Development at Microsoft Observed, no. MSR-TR-2005-140, October 2005
