Forrest Shull

Are delayed issues harder to resolve? Revisiting cost-to-fix of defects throughout the lifecycle

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Many practitioners and academics believe in a delayed issue effect (DIE); i.e. the longer an issue lingers in the system, the more …

tim-menzies

Local versus Global Lessons for Defect Prediction and Effort Estimation

Existing research is unclear on how to generate lessons learned for defect prediction and effort estimation. Should we seek lessons that are global to multiple projects or just …

tim-menzies

Technical Debt: Showing the Way for Better Transfer of Empirical Results

© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. All rights are reserved. In this chapter, we discuss recent progress and opportunities in empirical software engineering by focusing on a …

forrest-shull

What Do We Know about Test-Driven Development

What if someone argued that one of your basic conceptions about how to develop software was misguided? What would it take to change your mind? That's essentially the dilemma faced …

forrest-shull

How Effective is Test Driven Development?

burak-turhan

A Methodology for Mapping System Engineering Challenges to Recommended Approaches

Our current research is focused on identifying system engineering approaches that address four key development challenges in a tightly constrained, rapid reaction environment: 1) …

lucas-layman