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2008

 

Tempest: Towards Early Identification of Failure-Prone Binaries

Thirumalesh Bhat, Nachiappan Nagappan

To Appear: IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008)

 

Mining Software Effort Data: Preliminary Analysis of Visual Studio Team System Data

Lucas Layman, Nachiappan Nagappan, Sam Guckenheimer, Jeff Beehler, Andrew Begel, 

To Appear: Proceedings of the 5th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '08)

 

The Influence of Organizational Structure on Software Quality New!

Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Victor Basili

To Appear: International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2008), Leipzig, Germany

 

Predicting Defects using Social Network Analysis on Dependency Graphs New!

Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan

To Appear: International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2008), Leipzig, Germany

 

The Effect of the Number of Inspectors on the Defect Estimates Produced by Capture-Recapture Models New!

Gursimran Walia, Jeffery Carver, Nachiappan Nagappan

To Appear: International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2008), Leipzig, Germany

 

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.

 

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Recent Presentations

 

"Assessing the Relationship between Software Assertions and Faults: An Empirical Investigation" at ISSRE 06

"Using Historical In-Process and Product Metrics for Early Estimation of Software Failures" at ISSRE 06

“Explaining Failures Using Software Dependences and Code Churn Metrics in Commercial Software Systems”, North Carolina State University colloquium, June 06.

“Early Estimation of Software Quality: An Insider View of Software Measurement at Microsoft”, Saarland University, June 06

"Leveraging Software Metrics to Understand Failures" at Microsoft Research, India, 2006.

"Providing Test Quality Feedback Using Static Source Code and Automatic Test Suite Metrics" at ISSRE '05

“Use of Relative Code Churn Measures to Predict System Defect Density” at ICSE ’05

“Static Analysis Tools as Early Indicators of Pre-Release Defect Density” at ICSE ’05