Reading List

• 11th April 1997
  • Reuben: Briand's EASE paper
  • Steve: Basili's TOSE 22(10)
• 29th April 1997
  • Reuben: Cartwright and Shepperd's draft paper on "An empirical investigation.."
  • Steve: SLP's IEEE Computer paper on formal methods, Feb97
• 15 May 1997
  • Reuben: Roper's EASE paper
  • Steve: Daly's Empirical SE paper
• 29 May 1997
  • Reuben: Basili's CACM Reuse Oct 1996
  • Steve: Basili's ICSE 1992 "SEL..."
• 12th June 1997
  • Steve: A Porter's TOSE 1995
  • Reuben: J Daly's replicability paper ICSM
• 21st July 1997
  • Steve: "A unified framework for coupling measurement in OO Systems" by Lionel Briand, John Daly, Jurgen Wust last 25 pages
  • Reuben: "A unified framework for coupling measurement in OO Systems" by Lionel Briand, John Daly, Jurgen Wust first 25 pages
• Aug 1997
  • Emilia: MacDonell - Rigor in SW complexity measurement experimentation JSS 91 (16) p 141-149
  • Steve: Fenton - Quantitative analysis of faults and failures in a complex software system - draft paper, submitted to TSE
• Sep 8th 1997 10am
  • Steve: Briand, Devanbu, Melo, An investigation into coupling measures for C++, ICSE '97
  • Emilia: Garzotto - Analysing the quality of hypermedia applications - a design-oriented framework, Workshop on hypermedia design and development, Edinburgh, September 18. 1994
• Sep 22nd 1997 2.30pm
  • Emilia: Hatzimanikatis et al, Measuring the readability and maintainability of hyperdocuments, Software maintenance, research and practice, 7, 1995.
  • Steve: Bieman, Ott 'Measuring functional cohesion'. ieeetse 20 (8) August 94
  • Reuben: Metrics for quality analysis and improvement of OO software' by C.Ebert and I.Morschel (IST, vol39(1997))
• Oct 15th 1997 10am
  • Lins: Multivariate assessment of software products, by Martin Neil, JSTVR, 1(4) 1992
  • Reuben: Effect of object orientation on maintainability of software, Kiran, Haripriya and Jalote, ICSM, Oct 1997
• 29th Oct 1997:
  • Lins - 'Predicting software development errors using software complexity metrics' by Khoshgoftaar and Munson (IEEE J), Feb 90
  • Reuben: Towards a conceptual framework for OO Software metrics, Churcher and Shepperd, SE Notes, 20 (2) p 69-76, April 95
• 12th Nov 1997
  • Reuben: Li and Henry - Measuring OOD, JOOP July-August 1995
  • Lins - N Ohlsson, Alberg, Predicting fault-prone software modules in telephone switches, ieee tse, dec 96
• 10th Dec 1997
  • Lins - B Kitchenham, SL Pfleeger, Software Quality: the elusive target, IEEE Software, Jan 96
  • Reuben: B Kitchenham, Linkman and Law, Critical review of quantitative assessment, Software Eng Journal, Mar 94
  • Steve: Daly's EASE paper, March 97
• 7th Jan 1998
  • Steve: J Rosenberg - Some misconceptions about LOC - ISSM 97, Nov97
  • Reuben: R Glass - Software Research Crisis - ieee sw, Nov 94
• 21st Jan 1998
  • Steve: K El Emam - User Participation in the RE Process - REJ, 1996
  • Reuben: P Johnson - An instrumented approach to improving software quality - Proc 16th ICSE, 1994
• 4th Feb 1998
  • Steve: Potts, Software Engineering Research Revisited, IEEE SW, Sep 93
  • Reuben: Daskalatonakis, A practical view of software measurement and implementation within Motorola, ieee trans Nov 92
• 18th Feb 1998
  • Steve: Votta, Porter, Perry, Experimental Software Engineering: a report on the state of the art, 17th ICSE, 1995. (in http://www.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~rh/ReadingGroup/dep.ps)
  • Steve: T M Khoshgoftaar, E B Allen, Kalaichelvan, Goel, Early Quality Prediction: a case study in telecomms, ieee software, Jan 96
  • Reuben: Hillegersberg, Validating benefits of OO: a lab experiment, tech rep, 1995 (in http://www.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~rh/ReadingGroup/)
  • Emilia: Basili, The role of experimentation in software engineering, 18th ICSE 1996
• 4th March 1998, 10.30am, Room 3015 MB
  • Reuben: Kitchenham SEJ Towards a constructive quality model Part 1 1987
  • Steve: Rombach, Design Measurement: some lessons learned, IEEE software, 1990
  • Emilia: Briand, El Emam, Morasca, On the application of measurement theory, ESE 1(1), 1996
• 18th March 1998, 10.30am, Room 3001 MB
  • Reuben: Kitchenham SEJ Towards a constructive quality model Part 2 1987
  • Steve: Kitchenham, B A et al, An evaluation of some design metrics, Software Engineering Journal, 1990
  • Emilia: Seaman and Basili, An empirical study of communication in code inpsections, ICSE '97
• 1st April 1998, 10.30am, Room 3001 MB
  • Reuben: Kang and Bieman, Inheritance tree shapes and reuse, Metrics 97
  • Steve: Bieman and Zhao: Reuse through inheritance: a quantative study of C++ software, SRS 1994
• 17th April 1998, 10.30am, Room 3001 MB
  • Rachel: S L Pfleeger, J C Fitzgerald and D A Rippy, Using multiple metrics for analysis of improvement, Software Quality Journal 1, 27-36 (1992)
  • Steve: Kitchenham, B A et al, Case Studies for Method and Tool Evaluation, IEEE Software, July 1995
  • Emilia: Lubars et al, OOA for evolving systems, ICSE 92
• 29th April 1998, 10.30am, Room 3001 MB
  • Reuben: Bieman and Kang, Cohesion and reuse in an OO system, Proc Symp SW Reusability, 1994
  • Emilia: Kemerer, Software complexity and software maintenance: a survey of empirical research, Annals of software eng, 1995
  • Steve: Zweben, Edwards, Weide, Hollingsworth, The effects of layering and encapsulation on software development cost and quality, TSE, March 1995
• 13th May 1998, 10.30am, Room 3001 MB
  • Reuben: Porter, An experiment to assess the cost-benefits of code inspections in large scale software development, tse June 97
  • Emilia: Lewis, Henry and Kafura - An empirical study of OOP and software reuse, OOPSLA 91
  • Steve: Foote and Opdyke, Life cycle and refactoring patterns that support evolution and reuse, PLoP 94.
• 27th May 1998, 10.30am, Room 3001 MB
  • Reuben: Prechelt, A controlled experiment to assess the benefits of procedure argument type checking, TSE April 98.
  • Emilia: Basili TSE 12 7 - Experimentation in SE, 1986
  • Steve: Graves, Harrold, Kim, Porter, Rothermel, An empirical study of regression test selection techniques, ICSE98
• 10th June 1998 10.30am
  • Reuben: Neil, Lessons from using Z to specify a software tool, TSE Jan98
  • Steve: Demeyer, Detecting hot spots via change metrics, oopsla98
  • Emilia: Rossi, Schwabe, Garrido, Design Reuse in Hypermedia Applications Development, HT97, Southampton
• 12th August 1998 10.30am, Room 3001 MB
  • Reuben: McLellan, Experience using web-based shotgun measures, TSE Apr98
  • Emilia: Boehm-Davis, Program design methodologies and the software development process, Int J Man-machine studies, 92
• 30th September 1998 10.30am, Room 3001 MB
  • Reuben: Bieman, Measuring design-level cohesion, tse feb98
  • Emilia: An Empirical Study of Software Reuse with Special Attention to Ada, Nam-Yong Lee and Charles R. Litecky, tse sep97
• 14th October 1998 11.00am, Room 3001 MB
  • Reuben: 'Methodology for Validating Software Metrics', Norman F. Schneidewind, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 18(5), May, 1992.
  • Emilia: "Kitchenham, B A and Pfleeger, S L and Fenton, N", "Towards A Framework for software measurement Validation", tse dec 95
• 4th November 1998 11.00am Room 3001 MB
  • Emilia: S L Pfleeger et al, Status report on Software Measurement, IEEE Software March97
  • Reubin: Zelkowitz and Wallace, Experimental Models for Validating Technology, IEEE Computer, May 98
• 2nd December 1998 11.00am Room 3001 MB
  • Reuben: Rooijmans and Aerts, Software Quality in Consumer Electronics products, ieee software, Jan 96
  • Colin: Tichy, Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? IEEE Computer, May 98
• 16th December 1998 11.00am Room 3001 MB
  • Reuben: Curtis, Measurement & Experimentation in SE, Proc. IEE, Sep 80
  • Colin: Kitchenham, Evaluating software engineering methods and tools, Part 1 and 2, SEN 32(1) and 21 (2), 1996
• 27th January 1999 10.30am Room 3001 MB
  • Colin: Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Investigating the influence of formal methods, IEEE Computer, Feb97
  • Moira: B Kitchenham, Linkman and Law, Critical review of quantitative assessment, Software Eng Journal, Mar 94
• 17th Feb 1999 11.00am Room 3001 MB
  • Colin: Daly, An experimental comparison of the maintainability of OO and structured design documents, EASE 97, Keele 1997
  • Moira: Basili, The role of experimentation in software engineering, 18th ICSE 1996
• 3rd March 1999 11.00am Room 3001 MB
  • Colin: Daly, Evaluating inheritance depth on the maintainability of OO SW, Empirical SE 1(2) Feb 96
  • Moira: Basili, Experimentation in SE, 1986, TSE 12 7
• 17th March 1999 11.00am Room 3001 MB
  • Colin: Scanlan, Structured flowcharts outperform p-code, IEEE Software 1989
  • Moira: Brooks, Studying Programmers Behaviour, CACM 1980
• 7th April 1999 11.00am Room 3001 MB
  • Moira: Wynekoop & Russo, Studying system development methodologies: an examination of research methods, Info Sys Journal, 1997, 7, 47-65
  • Colin: Lewis & Henry, An empirical study of the OOP and software reuse, OOPSLA 91, p 184-196
• 21st April 1999 11am Room 3001 MB
  • Colin: Kitchenham BA, Towards a constructive quality model, SEJ Part 1 1987
  • Moira: Kitchenham, B A et al, Case Studies for Method and Tool Evaluation, IEEE Software, July 1995
• 5th May 1999 11am Room 3001 MB
  • Colin: Fenton, Science and substance: a challenge to software engineers, IEEE Software, Jul94
  • Moira: Fenton: How effective are software engineering methods, JSS, 1993
• 25th May 1999 11am Room 3001 MB
  • Colin: B Kitchenham, SL Pfleeger, Software Quality: the elusive target, IEEE Software, Jan 96
  • Moira: R Glass - Software Research Crisis - ieee sw, Nov 94
• 9th June 1999 11am Room 3001 MB
  • Colin: Fraser, Kumar, Vaishnavi, Strategies for incorporating formal specs, CACM Oct 1994
  • Moira: Winograd, From programming environments to environments for designing, CACM June 95
• 23rd June 1999 11am Room 3021 MB
  • Colin: Fraser, Vaishnavi, A formal spec maturity model, CACM Dec 1997
  • Moira: M Petre, Why looking isn't always seeing, CACM June 95
• 21st July 1999 11am Room?
  • Colin: S L Pfleeger, Lessons learned in building a corporate metrics program, IEEE Software May 93
  • Dani: Bieber, Toward support for hypermedia on the WWW, IEEE Computer, Jan 1997
  • Moira: Flynn et al, User evaluation of a user-centred modelling technique, EASE 97
• 23rd August 1999 11am Room 146
  • Moira: Wells, A review of published research methods in information systems and software engineering (draft)
  • Moira: Bennett, Legacy systems: coping with sucess, IEEE SW
  • Colin: S L Pfleeger et al, Status report on Software Measurement, IEEE Software March97
  • Dani: Olsina, Specifying quality characteristics and attributes for web sites, Web Eng workshop, ICSE99
• 10th Sept 99 11am Room 146
  • Moira: Chen, Information visualization for collaborative computing, IEEE SW, Aug 98
  • Colin: Developing the UML as a formal modellling notation, 1999, from web
  • Dani: Dani: McLellan, Experience using web-based shotgun measures, TSE, Apr 98
• 30th Sep 99 11am Room 146
  • Moira: D P Truex et al, Growing systems in emergent organizations. CACM Aug 99
  • Colin: J Draper et al, Evaluating the B-method on an avionics example
  • Dani: Brereton, Budgen, Hamilton, Hypertext: the next maintenance mountain. IEEE SW Dec98
• 14th Oct 99 11am Room 146
  • Mannu: Basili, Caldiera, Rombach, The GQM approach, Encycolpedia of SE, 1994
  • Dani: Cain, McCrindle, Visual Class Tool for assessing and improving C++ product quality, Proc. IASTED Inte Conf SEA, Arizona, 99
• 1st Nov 99 11am Room 146
  • Moira: D Bustard, Linking Soft systems and use-case modelling thru scenarios, 1999
  • Colin: S L Pfleeger, Experimental design and analysis in SE, ASE 1995
• 15th Nov 99 11am Room 146
  • Dani: Cain, Software visualization using C++ Lenses, Proc 7th Int Workshop on Program Comprehension, Pittsburgh, may99
  • Mannu: Basili, The role of experimentation in software engineering, 18th ICSE 1996
  • Colin: S L Pfleeger, Experimental design and analysis in SE, ASE 1995 (2nd half)
  29th Nov 99 11am Room 146
  • Moira: Wells and Harrison, A meta-analysis of interdiscplinary research
  • Moira: Wells and Harrison, An empirical study of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research and its impact upon software and company co-evolution and renewal
  • Colin: Brookes, Fitzgerald, Larsen, Formal and informal specs of a secure systems component: final results, FME 96, pp 214-227
  17th January 00 11am Room 146
  • Mannu: Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Investigating the influence of formal methods, IEEE Computer, Feb97
  • Dani: P Maes, Agents that buy and sell, CACM March 99, p81-91
  7th February 00 11am Room 146
  • Moira: C Seaman, Qualititatve methods in empirical studies of software enigneering, TSE Jul 99
  • Colin: Pfleeger, Albert Einstein and empirical software engineering, IEEE Computer, oct99
  • Mannu: Boegh, Kitchenham et al, SQUID, IEEE software, Mar/apr 1999
  21st February 00 11am Room 146
  • Dani: Multipurpose web publishing using html, xml and css, CACM Oct 99
  • Ji: B Kitchenham, Linkman and Law, Critical review of quantitative assessment, Software Eng Journal, Mar 94
  • Mark: French & Layzell, A study of communication and cooperation in distributed project teams, ICSM 1998 p. 146
  6th March 00 11am Room 146
  • Moira: D Bustard, Models to promote effective system change, ICSM 99
  • Colin: Basili, Building Knowledge thru families of experiments, TSE July 1999
  20th March 00 11am Room 146
  • Colin: Basili, Building Knowledge thru families of experiments, TSE July 1999
  • Mannu: S King, The value of verification: positive experience of industrial proof, FM 99, LNCS 1709
  • Dani: Brereton et al, The future of software, CACM Dec 1999
  3rd April 00 11am Room 146
  • Dani: Brereton et al, The future of software, CACM Dec 1999
  • Moira: Conradi et al, Success criteria for software experience bases: what we need to learn from other disciplines, position paper for Beg, Borrow, Steal
  • Ji: Birk, Aspects of large-scale process studies in industrial settings, position paper for Beg, Borrow, Steal
  8th May 00 11am Room 146
  • Dani: Brereton et al, The future of software, CACM Dec 1999
  • Ji: Kemerer & Slaughter, An empirical approach to studying software evoution, TSE July 1999
  22nd May 00 11am Room 146
  • Moira: Leveson, Intent Specifications, an approach to building human-centred specifications, TSE Jan 2000
  • Mannu: Larsen, Fitzgerald, Brookes, Applying formal specification in industry, IEEE Software, may 96
  12th June 00 11am Room 146
  • Ji: Lehman, Metrics and laws of software evolution - the nineties view, 4th Int Symposium on SW Metrics (Metrics 97)
  • Colin: Maccari, Empirical evaluation of CASE tools usage at Nokia: first results, EASE 00, apr 00
  9th Oct 00 11am Room 146
  • Moira: Sharp, SE: community and culture, IEEE SW, Jan 2000
  • Dani: Chen & Carr, Trailblazing the literature of hypertext: author co-citation analysis (1989-1998), Hypertext 99