4. ISESE 2005: Noosa Heads, Australia

Project Management Issues I

• Keun Lee, Barry W. Boehm:
  Empirical results from an experiment on value-based review (VBR) processes. 3-12
  
• Ida Hogganvik, Ketil Stølen:
  Risk analysis terminology for IT-systems: does it match intuition? 13-22
  
• Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Gail C. Murphy:
  Managing software change tasks: an exploratory study. 23-32
  

Maintenance Issues I

• Andrew Le Gear, Jim Buckley, J. J. Collins:
  Software reconnexion: understanding software using a variation on software reconnaissance and reflexion modelling. 34-43
  
• Liguo Yu, Stephen R. Schach, Kai Chen:
  Maintaining Linux: the role of "current". 44-52
  
• Phillip A. Relf:
  Tool assisted identifier naming for improved software readability: an empirical study. 53-62
  

Testing

• Hema Srikanth, Laurie Williams, Jason Osborne:
  System test case prioritization of new and regression test cases. 64-73
  
• Mats Skoglund, Per Runeson:
  A case study of the class firewall regression test selection technique on a large scale distributed software system. 74-83
  
• Juha Itkonen, Kristian Rautiainen:
  Exploratory testing: a multiple case study. 84-93
  

Experiments and Experimental Support I

• Andreas Jedlitschka, Dietmar Pfahl:
  Reporting guidelines for controlled experiments in software engineering. 95-104
  
• Bhekisipho Twala, Michelle Cartwright, Martin J. Shepperd:
  Comparison of various methods for handling incomplete data in software engineering databases. 105-114
  
• Stephen G. MacDonell:
  Visualization and analysis of software engineering data using self-organizing maps. 115-124
  

Metrics I

• Hiyam Al-Kilidar, Karl Cox, Barbara Kitchenham:
  The use and usefulness of the ISO/IEC 9126 quality standard. 126-132
  
• Forrest Shull, Richard Turner:
  An empirical approach to best practice identification and selection: the US Department of Defense acquisition best practices clearinghouse. 133-140
  
• Elspeth Golden, Bonnie E. John, Len Bass:
  Quality vs. quantity: comparing evaluation methods in a usability-focused software architecture modification task. 141-150
  

Quality

• Lars-Ola Damm, Lars Lundberg:
  Identification of test process improvements by combining fault trigger classification and faults-slip-through measurement. 152-161
  
• Toan Huynh, James Miller:
  Further investigations into evaluating Web site reliability. 162-171
  
• LiGuo Huang, Barry W. Boehm:
  Determining how much software assurance is enough? A value-based approach. 172-181
  

Software Process

• Qing Wang, Mingshu Li:
  Measuring and improving software process in China. 183-192
  
• Outi Salo, Pekka Abrahamsson:
  Integrating agile software development and software process improvement: a longitudinal case study. 193-202
  

Lessons Learned

• Aileen Cater-Steel, Mark Toleman, Terry Rout:
  Addressing the challenges of replications of surveys in software engineering research. 204-213
  
• Reidar Conradi, Jingyue Li, Odd Petter N. Slyngstad, Vigdis By Kampenes, Christian Bunse, Maurizio Morisio, Marco Torchiano:
  Reflections on conducting an international survey of software engineering. 214-223
  

Industrial Studies

• Eugene Glynn, Brian Fitzgerald, Chris Exton:
  Commercial adoption of open source software: an empirical study. 225-234
  
• Jussi Koskinen, Heikki Lintinen, Jarmo J. Ahonen, Tero Tilus, Henna Sivula:
  Empirical study of industrial decision making for software modernizations. 235-244
  

Requirements Issues

• Claes Wohlin, Aybüke Aurum:
  What is important when deciding to include a software requirement in a project or release? 246-255
  
• Deirdre Carew, Chris Exton, Jim Buckley:
  An empirical investigation of the comprehensibility of requirements specifications. 256-265
  
• Anderson Belgamo, Sandra Camargo Pinto Ferraz Fabbri, José Carlos Maldonado:
  TUCCA: improving the effectiveness of use case construction and requirement analysis. 266-275
  

Maintenance Issues II

• Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella:
  A comparative study on the re-documentation of existing software: code annotations vs. drawing editors. 277-286
  
• Mika Mäntylä:
  An experiment on subjective evolvability evaluation of object-oriented software: explaining factors and interrater agreement. 287-296
  
• Liguo Yu, Stephen R. Schach, Kai Chen:
  Measuring the maintainability of open-source software. 297-303
  

Evaluation

• Forrest Shull, Jeffrey Carver, Lorin Hochstein, Victor R. Basili:
  Empirical study design in the area of high-performance computing (HPC). 305-314
  
• Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Pia Meyer:
  Evaluating the acceptor side of EM³: release management at SAS. 315-324
  
• Rizwan Ahmed, Tracy Hall, Paul Wernick, Stewart Robinson:
  Evaluating a rapid simulation modelling process (RSMP) through controlled experiments. 325-334
  

Experiments and Experimental Support II

• Jari Vanhanen, Casper Lassenius:
  Effects of pair programming at the development team level: an experiment. 336-345
  
• Jennifer Swan, Trevor Barker, Carol Britton, Maria Kutar:
  An empirical study of factors that affect user performance when using UML interaction diagrams. 346-355
  
• Lesley Pek Wee Land, Bernard C. T. Tan, Li Bin:
  Investigating training effects on software reviews: a controlled experiment. 356-366
  

Reuse

• Liguo Yu, Stephen R. Schach, Kai Chen:
  Reusability before and after reuse: a Darwin case study. 368-375
  
• Raihan Al-Ekram, Cory Kapser, Richard C. Holt, Michael W. Godfrey:
  Cloning by accident: an empirical study of source code cloning across software systems. 376-385
  
• Rattikorn Hewett:
  Learning from software reuse experience. 386-395
  

Cost and Effort Issues I

• Shaochun Xu, Václav Rajlich:
  Dialog-based protocol: an empirical research method for cognitive activities in software engineering. 397-406
  
• Bente Anda, Hans Christian Benestad, Siw Elisabeth Hove:
  A multiple-case study of software effort estimation based on use case points. 407-416
  
• J. S. Karn, Anthony J. Cowling:
  A study of the effect of disruptions on the performance of software engineering teams. 417-425
  

Project Management Issues II

• Nur Nurmuliani, Didar Zowghi, Susan P. Williams: Characterising Requirements Volatility: An Empirical Case Study. 427-436
• Stefan Biffl, Bettina Thurnher, G. Goluch, Dietmar Winkler, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch:
  An empirical investigation on the visualization of temporal uncertainties in software engineering project planning. 437-446
  
• Tore Dybå, Nils Brede Moe, Erik Arisholm:
  Measuring software methodology usage: challenges of conceptualization and operationalization. 447-457
  

Metrics II

• Sutirtha Bhattacharya, Dewayne E. Perry:
  Contextual reusability metrics for event-based architectures. 459-468
  
• Michael English, Jim Buckley, Tony Cahill:
  A friend in need is a friend indeed [software metrics and friend functions]. 469-478
  
• Rajesh Vasa, Jean-Guy Schneider, Clinton Woodward, Andrew Cain:
  Detecting structural changes in object oriented software systems. 479-486
  

Experiments and Experimental Support III

• Rogério Eduardo Garcia, Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira, José Carlos Maldonado:
  Genetic algorithms to support software engineering experimentation. 488-497
  
• Emilia Mendes:
  A systematic review of Web engineering research. 498-507
  

Cost and Effort Issues II

• Carolyn Mair, Martin J. Shepperd:
  The consistency of empirical comparisons of regression and analogy-based software project cost prediction. 509-518