Publications
Found 296 scientific publications (published or accepted for publication in forums with peer review).
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2012
Articles in International Journals
M. Jørgensen
and
S. Grimstad.
Software Development Estimation Biases: The Role of Interdependence,
Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
2012.
2011
Articles in International Journals
A. Arcuri. It Really Does Matter How You Normalise the Branch Distance in Search Based Software Testing, Accepted for publication in Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 2011.
A. Arcuri. Evolutionary Repair of Faulty Software, Applied Soft Computing 11(4):3494–3514, 2011.
T. Halkjelsvik, M. Jørgensen, and K. H. Teigen. To Read Two Pages, I Need 5 Minutes, but Give Me 5 Minutes and I Will Read Four: How to Change Productivity Estimates by Inverting the Question, Applied Cognitive Psychology 25(2):314-323, 2011.
M. Jørgensen
and
S. Grimstad.
The Impact of Irrelevant and Misleading Information on Software Development Effort Estimates: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment,
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 37(5):695-707,
2011.
S. Mouchawrab,
L. Briand,
Y. Labiche,
and
M. Di Penta.
Assessing, Comparing, and Combining State machine-Based Testing and Structural Testing: A Series of Experiments,
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 37(2),
2011.
2010
Articles in International Journals
A. Al-Emran, P. Kapur, D. Pfahl, and G. Ruhe. Studying the impact of uncertainty in operational release planning – An integrated method and its initial evaluation, Information and Software Technology 52(4):446–461, 2010.
S. Ali,
L. Briand,
H. Hemmati,
and
R. K. Panesar-Walawege.
A Systematic Review of the Application and Empirical Investigation of Search-based Test-Case Generation,
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 36(6):742-762 ,
2010.
A. Arcuri. A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Role of Test Sequence Length in Software Testing, Submitted to journal, 2010.
A. Arcuri. Runtime Analysis of Search Algorithms in Software Testing, Submitted to journal, 2010.
A. Arcuri and X. Yao. Co-evolutionary Automatic Programming for Software Development, Accepted for publication in Information Sciences, 2010.
E. Arisholm,
L. C. Briand,
and
E. B. Johannessen.
A Systematic and Comprehensive Investigation of Methods to Build and Evaluate Fault Prediction Models,
Journal of Systems and Software 83(1):2-17,
2010.
H. C. Benestad,
B. C. D. Anda,
and
E. Arisholm.
Understanding the cost of software change: A quantitative and qualitative investigation of change effort during evolution of two software systems,
Empirical Software Engineering 15(2):166-203,
2010.
M. Bowman,
L. Briand,
and
Y. Labiche.
Solving the Class Responsibility Assignment Problem in Object-oriented Analysis with Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms ,
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 36(6):817-837 ,
2010.
L. Briand,
Y. Labiche,
and
Q. Lin.
Improving the Coverage Criteria of UML State Machines Using Data Flow Analysis,
Software Testing, Validation, and Reliability (Wiley) 20 (3),
2010.
K. Børte and M. Nerland. Software effort estimation as collective accomplishment: An analysis of estimation practice in a multi-specialist team, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems 22(2):65-98, 2010.
M. Jørgensen.
Selection of Effort Estimation Strategies,
Journal of Systems and Software 83(6):1039-1050,
2010.
M. Jørgensen.
Identification of More Risks Can Lead to Increased Over-Optimism of and Over-Confidence in Software Development Effort Estimates,
Information and Software Technology 52(5):506-516,
2010.
M. Jørgensen
and
T. Halkjelsvik.
The Effects of Request Formats on Judgment-based Effort Estimation,
Journal of Systems and Software 83(1):29-36,
2010.
Refereed Proceedings
A. Arcuri. Longer is Better: On the Role of Test Sequence Length in Software Testing, In: Third IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), ed. by Marie-Claude Gaudel and Ana Rosa Cavalli and Sudipto Ghosh, IEEE Computer Society (ISBN: 978-0-7695-3990-4), 2010.
A. Arcuri. It Does Matter How You Normalise the Branch Distance in Search Based Software Testing, In: Third IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), ed. by Marie-Claude Gaudel and Ana Rosa Cavalli and Sudipto Ghosh, IEEE Computer Society (ISBN: 978-0-7695-3990-4), 2010.
A. Arcuri, M. Z. Iqbal, and L. Briand. Formal Analysis of the Effectiveness and Predictability of Random Testing, In: ACM International Conference on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), ed. by Paolo Tonella, Alessandro Orso, ACM (ISBN: 978-1-60558-823-0), 2010.
D. Bell,
T. Hall,
J. E. Hannay,
D. Pfahl,
and
S. T. Acuña.
Software Engineering Group Work – Personality, Patterns and Performance,
In: Special Interest Group of the ACM on Management Information Systems and Special Interest Group of the ACM on Computer Personnel Research, ed. by J. Downey and D. Joseph, pp. 43-47, ACM (ISBN: 978-1-4503-0004-9),
2010.
Qurat-u. Farooq,
M. Z. Iqbal,
Z. Malik,
and
M. Riebisch.
A Model-Based Regression Testing Approach for Evolving Software Systems with Flexible Tool Support,
In: 17th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS), ed. by Roy Sterritt, Brandon Eames, and Jonathan Sprinkle, pp. 41-49, IEEE Computer Society (ISBN: 978-0-7695-4005-4),
2010.
J. E. Hannay
and
H. C. Benestad.
Perceived Productivity Threats in Large Agile Development Projects,
In: International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010), ed. by G. Succi, M. Morisio and N. Nagappan, ACM (ISBN: 978-1-4503-0039-01),
2010.
G. Hanssen,
A. F. Yamashita,
R. Conradi,
and
L. Moonen.
Software Entropy in Agile Product Evolution ,
In: Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, ed. by Ralph H. Sprague, pp. 1-10, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE (ISBN: 978-0-7695-3869-3),
2010.
R. K. Panesar-Walawege,
L. Briand,
M. Sabetzadeh,
and
T. Coq.
Characterizing the Chain of Evidence for Software Safety Cases: A Conceptual Model Based on the IEC 61508 Standard,
In: Third IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), ed. by Marie-Claude Gaudel and Ana Rosa Cavalli and Sudipto Ghosh, IEEE Computer Society (ISBN: 978-0-7695-3990-4),
2010.
Chapters in Books
H. C. Benestad,
B. C. D. Anda,
and
E. Arisholm.
A Method to Measure Productivity Trends during Software Evolution,
In: CCIS - Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ed. by Maciaszek, Leszek A. and González-Pérez, César and Jablonski, Stefan. Springer, vol. 69, chap. 2, pp. 147-162. Communications in Computer and Information Science. (ISBN: 978-3-642-14819-4),
2010.
J. E. Hannay. Personality, Intelligence, and Expertise: Impacts on Software Development, In: Making Software. What Really Works, and Why We Believe It, ed. by Greg Wilson and Andy Oram. O'Reilly, chap. 6, pp. 79-110. (ISBN: 978-0-596-80832-7), 2010.
M. Sabetzadeh,
A. Finkelstein,
and
M. Goedicke.
Viewpoints,
In: Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, ed. by Phillip A. Laplante. Auerbach Publications, vol. 2, chap. 54, pp. 1318--1329. (ISBN: 1420059777),
2010.
2009
Edited Books
Q. Wang, V. Garousi, R. Madachy, and D. Pfahl. Trustworthy Software Development Processes - International Conference on Software Process, ICSP 2009, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-17, 2009, Proceedings, Springer-Verlag (ISBN: 978-3-642-01679-0), 2009.
PhD Theses
H. C. Benestad.
Empirical Assessment of Cost Factors and Productivity during Software Evolution through the Analysis of Software Change Effort,
PhD thesis, University of Oslo,
2009.
Articles in International Journals
B. C. D. Anda, K. Hansen, and G. Sand. An Investigation of Use Case Quality in a Large Safety-Critical Software Development Project , Information and Software Technology (Invited paper for special issue on quality of UML Models)(Volume 51 Issue 12, December, 2009), 2009.
B. C. D. Anda, D. I. K. Sjøberg, and A. Mockus. Variability and Reproducibility in Software Engineering: A Study of four Companies that Developed the same System, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 35(3):1-1, 2009.
H. C. Benestad, B. C. D. Anda, and E. Arisholm. Understanding software maintenance and evolution by analyzing individual changes: A literature review, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice 21(6):349-378, 2009.
F. O. Bjørnson, A. I. Wang, and E. Arisholm. Improving the effectiveness of root cause analysis in post mortem analysis: A controlled experiment , Information and Software Technology 51(1):150-161, 2009.
L. Briand,
Y. Labiche,
and
S. He.
Automating Regression Test Selection Based on UML Designs,
Information and Software Technology (Elsevier) 51(1),
2009.
L. Briand,
Y. Labiche,
and
T. Yue.
Automated Traceability Analysis for UML Model Refinements,
Information and Software Technology (Elsevier) 51(2),
2009.
L. Briand,
Y. Labiche,
Z. Bawar,
and
N. Spido.
Using Machine Learning to Refine Category-Partition Test Specifications and Test Suites,
Information and Software Technology (Elsevier) 21(11),
2009.
B. Cornelissen,
A. Zaidman,
A. van Deursen,
L. Moonen,
and
R. Koschke.
A Systematic Survey of Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis,
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 35(5):684-702,
2009.
V. Garousi, K. Khosrovian, and D. Pfahl. A Customizable Pattern-based Software Process Simulation Model: Design, Calibration and Application, Software Process Improvement and Practice 14(3):165-180, 2009.
S. Grimstad
and
M. Jørgensen.
A Preliminary Study of Sequence Effects in Judgment-based Software Development Work- Effort Estimation,
IET - Special Issue (EASE) 3(5):435-441,
2009.
J. Hannay,
E. Arisholm,
H. Engvik,
and
D. Sjøberg.
Effects of Personality on Pair Programming,
Transactions on Software Engineering 36(1):61--80,
2009.
J. E. Hannay, T. Dybå, E. Arisholm, and D. I. K. Sjøberg. The Effectiveness of Pair-Programming: A Meta-Analysis, Information and Software Technology 55(7):1110-1122, 2009.
M. Jørgensen.
How to Avoid Selecting Providers with Bids Based on Over-Optimistic Cost Estimates,
IEEE Software (May/June) 26(3):79-84,
2009.
M. Jørgensen
and
B. Boehm.
Software Development Effort Estimation: Formal Models or Expert Judgment? (Viewpoints article),
IEEE Software(March/April):14-19,
2009.
M. Jørgensen
and
T. Gruschke.
The Impact of Lessons-Learned Sessions on Effort Estimation and Uncertainty Assessments,
IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering 35(3):368-383,
2009.
V. B. Kampenes, T. Dybå, J. E. Hannay, and D. I. K. Sjøberg. A systematic review of quasi-experiments in software engineering, Information & Software Technology 51(1):71-82, 2009.
A. Karahasanovic,
U. N. Hinkel,
D. I. K. Sjøberg,
and
R. Thomas.
Comparing of Feedback Collection and Think-Aloud Methods in Program Comprehension Studies,
Journal of Behaviour & Information Technology 28(2):139-164,
2009.
M. Marin,
A. van Deursen,
L. Moonen,
and
R. van der Rijst.
An integrated crosscutting concern migration strategy and its semi-automated application to JHotDraw,
Journal of Automated Software Engineering 16(2):323-356,
2009.
