Browsing SERL - Software Engineering Research Laboratory by Title
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Causal factors, benefits and challenges of test-driven development: practitioner perceptions
(IEEE, 2011)This report describes the experiences of one organization's adoption of Test Driven Development (TDD) practices as part of a medium-term software project employing Extreme Programming as a methodology. Three years into ... -
Combining techniques to optimize effort predictions in software project management
(Elsevier, 2003)This paper tackles two questions related to software effort prediction. First, is it valuable to combine prediction techniques? Second, if so, how? Many commentators have suggested the use of more than one technique in ... -
Comparative review of functional complexity assessment methods for effort estimation
(IEEE, 1994)Budgetary constraints are placing increasing pressure on project managers to effectively estimate development effort requirements at the earliest opportunity. With the rising impact of automation on commercial software ... -
Comparing local and global software effort estimation models – reflections on a systematic review
(IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007)The availability of multi-organisation data sets has made it possible for individual organisations to build and apply management models, even if they do not have data of their own. In the absence of any data this may be a ... -
Contextual and concept-based interactive query expansion
(National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications (NACCQ), 2006)In this paper, we present a novel approach for contextual and concept based query formulation in web-based information retrieval, which is an on-going PhD project being undertaken at the Software Engineering Research Lab ... -
Contextual relevance feedback in web information retrieval
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2006)In this paper, we present an alternative approach to the problem of contextual relevance feedback in web-based information retrieval. Our approach utilises a rich contextual model that exploits a user's implicit and explicit ... -
Data accumulation and software effort prediction
(IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010)BACKGROUND: In reality project managers are constrained by the incremental nature of data collection. Specifically, project observations are accumulated one project at a time. Likewise within-project data are accumulated ... -
Data quality in empirical software engineering: a targeted review
(ACM, 2013)Context: The utility of prediction models in empirical software engineering (ESE) is heavily reliant on the quality of the data used in building those models. Several data quality challenges such as noise, incompleteness, ... -
Deriving relevant functional measures for automated development projects
(Elsevier, 1993)The increasing use of computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools, fourth-generation languages (4GLs) and other similar development automation techniques, has reduced the impact of implementation methods and individual ... -
Design and control of cross coupled mechanisms driven by AC brushless servomotors
(Professional Engineering Publishing, 1998)This paper presents an overview of a design methodology for the optimal synthesis of hybrid mechanisms. Hybrid mechanisms have been defined as multi-degree of freedom systems where the input motions are supplied by different ... -
Early experiences in measuring multimedia systems development effort
(Springer-Verlag, 1997)The development of multimedia information systems must be managed and controlled just as it is for other generic system types. This paper proposes an approach for assessing multimedia component and system characteristics ... -
Effort estimation for the development of spatial information systems
(University of Otago, 1996)The management and control of software processes has assumed increasing importance in recent times. The ability to obtain accurate and consistent indications of, for example, system quality, developer productivity and ... -
Effort-based re-estimation during software projects
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Establishing relationships between specification size and software process effort in CASE environments
(Elsevier, 1997)Advances in software process technology have rendered some existing methods of size assessment and effort estimation inapplicable. The use of automation in the software process, however, provides an opportunity for the ... -
Evaluating prediction systems in software project estimation
(Elsevier, 2012)Context Software engineering has a problem in that when we empirically evaluate competing prediction systems we obtain conflicting results. Objective To reduce the inconsistency amongst validation study results and ... -
Evolving connectionist system versus algebraic formulas for prediction of renal function from serum creatinine
(Nature Publishing Group, 2005)Background In clinical trials, equation 7 from the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study is the most accurate formula for the prediction of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) from serum creatinine. An alternative ... -
Evolving connectionist systems for adaptive sport coaching
(Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008)Contemporary computer assisted coaching software operates either on a particular sub-space of the wider problem or requires expert(s) to operate and provide explanations and recommendations. This paper introduces a novel ... -
Examining the significance of high-level programming features in source code author classification
(Elsevier, 2008)The use of Source Code Author Profiles (SCAP) represents a new, highly accurate approach to source code authorship identification that is, unlike previous methods, language independent. While accuracy is clearly a crucial ... -
Factors systematically associated with errors in subjective estimates of software development effort: the stability of expert judgment
(IEEE Computer Society, 1999)Estimation of project development effort is most often performed by expert judgment rather than by using an empirically derived model (although such may be used by the expert to assist their decision). One question that ... -
Factors that affect software systems development project outcomes: a survey of research
(AUT UniversityAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2011)Determining the factors that have an influence on software systems development and deployment project outcomes has been the focus of extensive and ongoing research for more than 30 years. We provide here a survey of the ...