1. ESEM 2007: Madrid, Spain

Keynote Addresses

• Lionel C. Briand:
  A Critical Analysis of Empirical Research in Software Testing. 1-8
  
• Gregg Rothermel:
  Helping End-User Programmers "Engineer" Software: an Opportunity for Empirical Researchers. 9-10
  

Experience Management

• Yoshiki Mitani, Tomoko Matsumura, Mike Barker, Seishiro Tsuruho, Katsuro Inoue, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  Proposal of a Complete Life Cycle In-Process Measurement Model Based on Evaluation of an In-Process Measurement Experiment Using a Standardized Requirement Definition Process. 11-20
  
• Ossi Taipale, Katja Karhu, Kari Smolander:
  Observing Software Testing Practice from the Viewpoint of Organizations and Knowledge Management. 21-30
  
• Andreas Jedlitschka, Marcus Ciolkowski, Christian Denger, Bernd G. Freimut, Andreas Schlichting:
  Relevant Information Sources for Successful Technology Transfer: A Survey Using Inspections as an Example. 31-40
  

Empirical Studies of Testing and Validation

• Samar Mouchawrab, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche:
  Assessing, Comparing, and Combining Statechart- based testing and Structural testing: An Experiment. 41-50
  
• Atul Gupta, Pankaj Jalote:
  Test Inspected Unit or Inspect Unit Tested Code? 51-60
  
• Juha Itkonen, Mika Mäntylä, Casper Lassenius:
  Defect Detection Efficiency: Test Case Based vs. Exploratory Testing. 61-70
  
• Haruka Nakao, Shigeo Yoshikawa, Daniel Port, Yuko Miyamoto, Masafumi Katahira:
  Comparing Model Generated with Expert Generated IV&V Activity Plans. 71-80
  

Experimental Techniques and Infrastructure

• Philip M. Johnson:
  Requirement and Design Trade-offs in Hackystat: An In-Process Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis System. 81-90
  
• Gerardo Canfora, Corrado Aaron Visaggio:
  Tuning anonymity level for assuring high data quality: an empirical study. 91-98
  
• Gernot Armin Liebchen, Bhekisipho Twala, Martin J. Shepperd, Michelle Cartwright, Mark Stephens:
  Filtering, Robust Filtering, Polishing: Techniques for Addressing Quality in Software Data. 99-106
  

Effort Estimation

• Eduardo Aranha, Paulo Borba:
  An Estimation Model for Test Execution Effort. 107-116
  
• Ricardo Valerdi:
  Cognitive Limits of Software Cost Estimation. 117-125
  
• Jingzhou Li, Ahmed Al-Emran, Günther Ruhe:
  Impact Analysis of Missing Values on the Prediction Accuracy of Analogy-based Software Effort Estimation Method AQUA. 126-135
  

Empirical Studies of Software Products

• Hayden Melton, Ewan D. Tempero:
  Static Members and Cycles in Java Software. 136-145
  
• Tayana Uchôa Conte, Jobson Luiz Massolar da Silva, Emilia Mendes, Guilherme Horta Travassos:
  Usability Evaluation Based on Web Design Perspectives. 146-155
  
• Krystle Lemon, Edward B. Allen, Jeffrey C. Carver, Gary L. Bradshaw:
  An Empirical Study of the Effects of Gestalt Principles on Diagram Understandability. 156-165
  

Empirical Studies of Software Processes

• Américo Sampaio, Phil Greenwood, Alessandro F. Garcia, Awais Rashid:
  A Comparative Study of Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering Approaches. 166-175
  
• Lucas Layman, Laurie Williams, Robert St. Amant:
  Toward Reducing Fault Fix Time: Understanding Developer Behavior for the Design of Automated Fault Detection Tools. 176-185
  

Quality and Defect Prediction

• Denis Kozlov, Jussi Koskinen, Jouni Markkula, Markku Sakkinen:
  Evaluating the Impact of Adaptive Maintenance Process on Open Source Software Quality. 186-195
  
• Yasutaka Kamei, Akito Monden, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Takeshi Kakimoto, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  The Effects of Over and Under Sampling on Fault-prone Module Detection. 196-204
  
• Hanna Scott, Philip M. Johnson:
  Generalizing fault contents from a few classes. 205-214
  

Performing Systematic Reviews

• Óscar Dieste Tubío, Anna Grimán:
  Developing Search Strategies for Detecting Relevant Experiments for Systematic Reviews. 215-224
  
• Tore Dybå, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Geir Kjetil Hanssen:
  Applying Systematic Reviews to Diverse Study Types: An Experience Report. 225-234
  
• Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, Mario Jino:
  Using Context Distance Measurement to Analyze Results across Studies. 235-244
  
• Viviane Malheiros, Erika Nina Hohn, Roberto Pinho, Manoel G. Mendonça, José Carlos Maldonado:
  A Visual Text Mining approach for Systematic Reviews. 245-254
  

Empirical Studies of Agile Methods

• Andrew Begel, Nachiappan Nagappan:
  Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study. 255-264
  
• Monvorath Phongpaibul, Barry W. Boehm:
  A Replicate Empirical Comparison between Pair Development and Software Development with Inspection. 265-274
  
• Maria Siniaalto, Pekka Abrahamsson:
  A Comparative Case Study on the Impact of Test-Driven Development on Program Design and Test Coverage. 275-284
  
• Atul Gupta, Pankaj Jalote:
  An Experimental Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Test Driven Development. 285-294
  

Software Metrics

• Michael English, Jim Buckley, Tony Cahill:
  Fine-Grained Software Metrics in Practice. 295-304
  
• Çigdem Gencel, Onur Demirörs:
  Conceptual Differences Among Functional Size Measurement Methods. 305-313
  
• Marcus Ciolkowski, Jens Heidrich, Jürgen Münch, Frank Simon, Mathias Radicke:
  Evaluating Software Project Control Centers in Industrial Environments. 314-323
  

Effort Estimation in New Environments

• Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Emilia Mendes:
  Comparing Size Measures for Predicting Web Application Development Effort: A Case Study. 324-333
  
• Emilia Mendes:
  A Comparison of Techniques for Web Effort Estimation. 334-343
  
• Pekka Abrahamsson, Raimund Moser, Witold Pedrycz, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi:
  Effort Prediction in Iterative Software Development Processes -- Incremental Versus Global Prediction Models. 344-353
  

Software Data Mining

• Jacek Ratzinger, Thomas Sigmund, Peter Vorburger, Harald Gall:
  Mining Software Evolution to Predict Refactoring. 354-363
  
• Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball:
  Using Software Dependencies and Churn Metrics to Predict Field Failures: An Empirical Case Study. 364-373
  
• Osamu Mizuno, Shiro Ikami, Shuya Nakaichi, Tohru Kikuno:
  Fault-Prone Filtering: Detection of Fault-Prone Modules Using Spam Filtering Technique. 374-383
  

Homogeneity in Effort Estimation

• Naoki Ohsugi, Akito Monden, Nahomi Kikuchi, Michael D. Barker, Masateru Tsunoda, Takeshi Kakimoto, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  Is This Cost Estimate Reliable? -- The Relationship between Homogeneity of Analogues and Estimation Reliability. 384-392
  
• Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmermann:
  Building Software Cost Estimation Models using Homogenous Data. 393-400
  
• Stephen G. MacDonell, Martin J. Shepperd:
  Comparing Local and Global Software Effort Estimation Models -- Reflections on a Systematic Review. 401-409
  

Empirical Studies of Architecture

• Byron J. Williams, Jeffrey C. Carver:
  Characterizing Software Architecture Changes: An Initial Study. 410-419
  
• Muhammad Ali Babar, Barbara Kitchenham:
  The Impact of Group Size on Software Architecture Evaluation: A Controlled Experiment. 420-429
  
• Muhammad Ali Babar, Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl:
  Evaluating the Usefulness and Ease of Use of a Groupware Tool for the Software Architecture Evaluation Process. 430-439
  

Short Papers

Software Quality

• Stefan Wagner:
  An Approach to Global Sensitivity Analysis: FAST on COCOMO. 440-442
  
• Kyung-A Yoon, Oh-Sung Kwon, Doo-Hwan Bae:
  An Approach to Outlier Detection of Software Measurement Data using the K-means Clustering Method. 443-445
  
• Hakan Erdogmus:
  A cost effectiveness indicator for software development. 446-448
  
• Clemente Izurieta, James M. Bieman:
  How Software Designs Decay: A Pilot Study of Pattern Evolution. 449-451
  
• Paul Luo Li, Randy Nakagawa, Rob Montroy:
  Estimating the Quality of Widely Used Software Products Using Software Reliability Growth Modeling: Case Study of an IBM Federated Database Project. 452-454
  
• Miguel Pérez-Francisco, Pablo Boronat Perez, Gregorio Robles:
  Correlation between bug notifications, messages and participants in Debian's bug tracking system. 455-457
  
• Carina Andersson, Per Runeson:
  Investigating Test Teams' Defect Detection in Function test. 458-460
  
• Shinsuke Matsumoto, Yasutaka Kamei, Akito Monden, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  Comparison of Outlier Detection Methods in Fault-proneness Models. 461-463
  
• Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta:
  "Talking tests": a Preliminary Experimental Study on Fit User Acceptance Tests. 464-466
  

Empirical Research, Case Study Design, and Surveys

• Ariadi Nugroho, Michel R. V. Chaudron:
  A Survey of the Practice of Design - Code Correspondence amongst Professional Software Engineers. 467-469
  
• Christopher Ackermann, Forrest Shull, Ralf Carbon, Christian Denger, Mikael Lindvall:
  Assessing the Quality Impact of Design Inspections. 470-472
  
• Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile, Teresa Mallardo:
  A Controlled Experiment on the Effects of Synchronicity in Remote Inspection Meetings. 473-475
  
• Jesal Bhuta, Sudeep Mallick, S. V. Subrahmanya:
  A Survey of Enterprise Software Development Risks in a Flat World. 476-478
  
• Martin Höst, Per Runeson:
  Checklists for Software Engineering Case Study Research. 479-481
  
• John Bailey, David Budgen, Mark Turner, Barbara Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, Stephen G. Linkman:
  Evidence relating to Object-Oriented software design: A survey. 482-484
  
• Christian Denger, Raimund L. Feldmann, Martin Höst, Christin Lindholm, Forrest Shull:
  A Snapshot of the State of Practice in Software Development for Medical Devices. 485-487
  
• Victor R. Basili, Jens Heidrich, Mikael Lindvall, Jürgen Münch, Myrna Regardie, Adam Trendowicz:
  GQM⁺ Strategies - Aligning Business Strategies with Software Measurement. 488-490
  
• Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, Mario Jino:
  Automated Information Extraction from Empirical Software Engineering Literature: Is that possible? 491-493
  

Posters

• Stefan Biffl, Dietmar Winkler:
  Value-Based Empirical Research Plan Evaluation. 494
  
• Michele A. Shaw, Raimund L. Feldmann, Forrest Shull:
  Decision Support with EMPEROR. 495
  
• Supannika Koolmanojwong, Barry W. Boehm:
  An Empirical Study on MBASE and LeanMBASE. 496
  
• Burak Turhan, F. Onur Kutlubay, Ayse Basar Bener:
  Evaluation of Feature Extraction Methods on Software Cost Estimation. 497
  
• Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini, Silvia Mara Abrahão, Emilio Insfrán, José A. Carsí, Isidro Ramos:
  A Controlled Experiment for Selecting Transformations based on Quality Attributes in the context of MDA. 498
  
• Noura Abbas:
  Agile Software Assurance: An Empirical Study. 499
  
• Maya Daneva:
  Approaching the ERP Project Cost Estimation Problem: an Experiment. 500