Publications

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Conference publications

“Use of Relative Code Churn Measures to Predict System Defect Density”

Nagappan, N., Ball, T.

Proceedings of The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), pp. 284-292, St. Louis, MO.

“Static Analysis Tools as Early Indicators of Pre-Release Defect Density”

Nagappan, N., Ball, T.

Proceedings of The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), pp. 580-586, St. Louis, MO

“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.

“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 2004) pp 143-152. Rome, Italy, September 2003.

“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.

“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 2004.

“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.

Workshop publications

“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.

“ “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.

THESES

“A Software Testing and Reliability Early Warning (STREW) Metric Suite”

Nagappan, N.

Ph.D. Dissertation, North Carolina State University, February 2005.

Selected technical reports

“On the Effectiveness of Static Analysis Tools for Fault-Detection”

Zheng, J., Williams, L., Nagappan, N., Snipes, W., Hudepohl, J., Vouk, M., Ngo, K.

North Carolina State University, Computer Science TR-2004-05.

“Initial Results of using in-process testing metrics to estimate software reliability”

Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Osborne, J.

North Carolina State University, Computer Science TR-2004-05.

“On the Feasibility of Using Operational Profiles to Determine Software Reliability in Extreme Programming”

Nagappan, N., Sherriff, M., Williams, L.

North Carolina State University, Computer Science TR-2003-15.

“Virtual Collaboration through Distributed Pair Programming”

Nagappan, N. Williams, L.,Baheti, P.,Gehringer, E.,Stotts, D.

North Carolina State University, Computer Science TR-2003-02.

Other publications

“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.

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“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.