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Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering

The Legacy of Victor R. Basili

By: Barry Boehm,Hans Dieter Rombach,Marvin V. Zelkowitz

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Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering

The Legacy of Victor R. Basili

By: Barry Boehm,Hans Dieter Rombach,Marvin V. Zelkowitz

Although software engineering can trace its beginnings to a NATO conf- ence in 1968, it cannot be said to have become an empirical science until the 1970s with the advent of the work of Prof. Victor Robert Basili of the University of Maryland. In addition to the need to engineer software was the need to understand software. Much like other sciences, such as physics, chemistry, and biology, software engineering needed a discipline of obs- vation, theory formation, experimentation, and feedback. By applying the scientific method to the software engineering domain, Basili developed concepts like the Goal-Question-Metric method, the Quality-Improvement- Paradigm, and the Experience Factory to help bring a sense of order to the ad hoc developments so prevalent in the software engineering field. On the occasion of Basili’s 65th birthday, we present this book c- taining reprints of 20 papers that defined much of his work. We divided the 20 papers into 6 sections, each describing a different facet of his work, and asked several individuals to write an introduction to each section. Instead of describing the scope of this book in this preface, we decided to let one of his papers, the keynote paper he gave at the International C- ference on Software Engineering in 1996 in Berlin, Germany to lead off this book. He, better than we, can best describe his views on what is - perimental software engineering.

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Identifying Relevant Information for Testing Technique Selection

An Instantiated Characterization Schema

By: Sira Vegas,Natalia Juristo,Victor R. Basili

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Identifying Relevant Information for Testing Technique Selection

An Instantiated Characterization Schema

By: Sira Vegas,Natalia Juristo,Victor R. Basili

Engineering tasks are supposed to achieve defined goals under certain project constraints. Example goals of software engineering tasks include achieving a certain functionality together with some level of reliability or performance. Example constraints of software engineering tasks include budget and time limitations or experience limitations of the developers at hand. Planning of an engineering project requires the selection of techniques, methods and tools suited to achieve stated goals under given project constraints. This assumes sufficient knowledge regarding the process-product relationships (or effects) of candidate techniques, methods and tools. Planning of software projects suffers greatly from lack of knowledge regarding the process-product relationships of candidate techniques, methods and tools. Especially in the area of testing a project planner is confronted with an abundance of testing techniques, but very little knowledge regarding their effects under varying project conditions. This book offers a novel approach to addressing this problem: First, based on a comprehensive initial characterization scheme (see chapter 7) an overview of existing testing techniques and their effects under varying conditions is provided to guide the selection of testing approaches. Second, the optimisation of this knowledge base is suggested based on experience from experts, real projects and scientific experiments (chapters 8, 9, and 10). This book is of equal interest to practitioners, researchers and students. Practitioners interested in identifying ways to organize their company-specific knowledge about testing could start with the schema provided in this book, and optimise it further by applying similar strategies as offered in chapters 8 and 9.

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1461504198

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Experimental Software Engineering Issues:

Critical Assessment and Future Directions. International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, September 14-18, 1992. Proceedings

By: H.Dieter Rombach,Victor R. Basili,Richard W. Selby

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Experimental Software Engineering Issues:

Critical Assessment and Future Directions. International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, September 14-18, 1992. Proceedings

By: H.Dieter Rombach,Victor R. Basili,Richard W. Selby

This book was written primarily for all those DTP users and programmers who want to keep up with the rapid development of electronic publishing, particular those who wish to develop new systems for the output of typefaces. In this volume, various formats are presented, their properties discussed and production requirements analyzed. Appendices provide readers additional information, largely on digital formats for typeface storage.

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A Knowledge-Based Approach to Program Understanding

By: Salwa K. Abd-El-Hafiz,Victor R. Basili

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A Knowledge-Based Approach to Program Understanding

By: Salwa K. Abd-El-Hafiz,Victor R. Basili

Program understanding plays an important role in nearly all software related tasks. It is vital to the development, maintenance and reuse activities. Program understanding is indispensable for improving the quality of software development. Several development activities such as code reviews, debugging and some testing approaches require programmers to read and understand programs. Maintenance activities cannot be performed without a deep and correct understanding of the component to be maintained. Program understanding is vital to the reuse of code components because they cannot be utilized without a clear understanding of what they do. If a candidate reusable component needs to be modified, an understanding how it is designed is also required. of This monograph presents a· knowledge-based approach to the automation of program understanding. This approach generates rigorous program documentation mechanically by combining and building on strengths of a practical program decomposition method, the axiomatic correctness notation, and the knowledge based analysis approaches. More specifically, this approach documents programs by generating first order predicate logic annotations of their loops. In this approach, loops are classified according to their complexity levels. Based on this taxonomy, variations on the basic analysis approach that best fit each of the different classes are described. In general, mechanical annotation of loops is performed by first decomposing them using data flow analysis. This decomposition encapsulates interdependent statements in events, which can be analyzed individually.

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Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering

Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering

Identifying Relevant Information for Testing Technique Selection

Identifying Relevant Information for Testing Technique Selection

Experimental Software Engineering Issues:

Experimental Software Engineering Issues:

A Knowledge-Based Approach to Program Understanding

A Knowledge-Based Approach to Program Understanding

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