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    • Connecting the Dots: Measuring Effectiveness and Affectiveness in Software Systems 

      Ortu, Marco; Destefanis, Giuseppe; Counsell, Steve; Marchesi, Michele; Tonelli, Roberto (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-06-29)
      The summary presented in this paper highlights the results obtained in a four-years project aiming at analyzing the development process of software artifacts from two points of view: Effectiveness and Affectiveness. The ...
    • Developing Fault-Prediction Models : What the research can show industry 

      Hall, Tracy; Beecham, Sarah; Bowes, David; Gray, David; Counsell, Steve (2011)
      A systematic review of the research literature on fault-prediction models from 2000 through 2010 identified 36 studies that sufficiently defined their models and development context and methodology. The authors quantitatively ...
    • Editorial 

      Sarro, Federica; Hall, Tracy; Baddoo, Nathan; Buckley, Jim; English, Michael; Counsell, Steve; Noll, John; Rainer, Austen; Jan-Stol, Klaas; O'Connor, Dara; Power, Norah; Bowes, David; Abrahao, Silvia; Fontana, Francesca Arcelli; Avgeriou, Paris; Ali, Nour; Babar, M. Ali; Baldassarre, Maria Teresa; Biffl, Stefan; Brereton, O. Pearl; Budgen, David; Çaglayan, Bora; Cain, James; Caivano, Danilo; Capiluppi, Andrea; Carver, Jeffrey; Charters, Stuart; Ciolkowski, Marcus; Clear, Tony; Cruzes, Daniela S.; Daneva, Maya; Dieste, Oscar; Dybå, Tore; Falessi, Davide; Ferrucci, Filomena; Franch, Xavier; Galster, Matthias; Gatrell, Matt; Genero, Marcela; Graziotin, Daniel; Harrison, Rachel; Herold, Sebastian; Höst, Martin; Ikram, Naveed; Keung, Jacky; Krinke, Jens; Kuhrmann, Marco; Licorish, Sherlock; Madeyski, Lech; Mendes, Emilia; Méndez Fernández, Daniel; Menzies, Tim; Morasca, Sandro; Müller, Matthias; Münch, Jürgen; Nagappan, Nachiappan; Niazi, Mahmood; Penzenstadler, Birgit; Pfahl, Dietmar; Pfahl, Dietmar; Prechelt, Lutz; Radlinski, Lukasz; Ralph, Paul; Rodríguez, Daniel; Scanniello, Giuseppe; Sharp, Helen; Shepperd, Martin; Da Silva, Fabio Q B; Sjøberg, Dag I K; Solari, Martin; Staples, Mark; Stol, Klaas Jan; Svahnberg, Mikael; Torchiano, Marco; Travassos, Guilherme; Visaggio, Giuseppe; Wagner, Stefan; Winkler, Dietmar; Wnuk, Krzysztof; Wnuk, Krzysztof; Wood, Murray; Yamashita, Aiko; Zhang, He; França, Breno; Martínez-Fernández, Silverio; Meshesha, Fitsum; Mindermann, Kai; Niedermayr, Rainer; Oyetoyan, Tosin Daniel; Ribeiro, Talita; Stade, Melanie; Zahedi, Mansooreh; Zanoni, Marco (ACM Press, 2016-06-01)
    • How diverse is your team? Investigating gender and nationality diversity in GitHub teams 

      Ortu, Marco; Destefanis, Giuseppe; Counsell, Steve; Swift, Stephen; Tonelli, Roberto; Marchesi, Michele (2017-12-20)
      Background Building an effective team of developers is a complex task faced by both software companies and open source communities. The problem of forming a “dream” team involves many variables, including consideration of ...
    • The Relationship between Evolutionary Coupling and Defects in Large Industrial Software 

      Kirbas, Serkan; Caglayan, Bora; Hall, Tracy; Counsell, Steve; Bowes, David; Sen, Alper; Bener, Ayse (2017-04-05)
      Evolutionary coupling (EC) is defined as the implicit relationship between 2 or more software artifacts that are frequently changed together. Changing software is widely reported to be defect-prone. In this study, we ...
    • Software development: Do good manners matter? 

      Destefanis, Giuseppe; Ortu, Marco; Counsell, Steve; Swift, Stephen; Marchesi, Michele; Tonelli, Roberto (2016-07-18)
      A successful software project is the result of a complex process involving, above all, people. Developers are the key factors for the success of a software development process, not merely as executors of tasks, but as ...