5. ISESE 2006: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Keynote address

• Victor R. Basili:
  Is there a future for empirical software engineering? 1
  

Faults and failures

• Piotr Tomaszewski, Lars-Ola Damm:
  Comparing the fault-proneness of new and modified code: an industrial case study. 2-7
  
• Erik Arisholm, Lionel C. Briand:
  Predicting fault-prone components in a java legacy system. 8-17
  
• Adrian Schröter, Thomas Zimmermann, Andreas Zeller:
  Predicting component failures at design time. 18-27
  

Research methodology

• Sira Vegas, Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Ana María Moreno, Martín Solari, Patricio Letelier:
  Analysis of the influence of communication between researchers on experiment replication. 28-37
  
• Barbara Kitchenham, Hiyam Al-Kilidar, Muhammad Ali Babar, Mike Berry, Karl Cox, Jacky Keung, Felicia Kurniawati, Mark Staples, He Zhang, Liming Zhu:
  Evaluating guidelines for empirical software engineering studies. 38-47
  
• Manoel G. Mendonça, Daniela Cruzes, Josemeire Dias, Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira:
  Using observational pilot studies to test and improve lab packages. 48-57
  

Cost and effort estimation

• Stein Grimstad, Magne Jørgensen:
  A framework for the analysis of software cost estimation accuracy. 58-65
  
• Jingzhou Li, Günther Ruhe:
  A comparative study of attribute weighting heuristics for effort estimation by analogy. 66-74
  
• Chris Lokan, Emilia Mendes:
  Cross-company and single-company effort models using the ISBSG database: a further replicated study. 75-84
  

Comparing defect detection techniques

• Monvorath Phongpaibul, Barry W. Boehm:
  An empirical comparison between pair development and software inspection in Thailand. 85-94
  
• Lulu He, Jeffrey C. Carver:
  PBR vs. checklist: a replication in the n-fold inspection context. 95-104
  
• Johannes Mayer, Christoph Schneckenburger:
  An empirical analysis and comparison of random testing techniques. 105-114
  

Software design

• Fredrik Törner, Martin Ivarsson, Fredrik Pettersson, Peter Öhman:
  Defects in automotive use cases. 115-123
  
• Bente Anda, Kai Hansen:
  A case study on the application of UML in legacy development. 124-133
  
• Davide Falessi, Giovanni Cantone, Martin Becker:
  Documenting design decision rationale to improve individual and team design decision making: an experimental evaluation. 134-143
  

Software projects

• Richard Berntsson-Svensson, Aybüke Aurum:
  Successful software project and products: An empirical investigation. 144-153
  
• June M. Verner, Karl Cox, Steven J. Bleistein:
  Predicting good requirements for in-house development projects. 154-163
  
• Geir Kjetil Hanssen, Tor Erlend Fægri:
  Agile customer engagement: a longitudinal qualitative case study. 164-173
  

Defect detection

• Margaret A. Wojcicki, Paul A. Strooper:
  Maximising the information gained from an experimental analysis of code inspection and static analysis for concurrent java components. 174-183
  
• Christian Denger, Ronny Kolb:
  Testing and inspecting reusable product line components: first empirical results. 184-193
  
• Stefan Wagner:
  A literature survey of the quality economics of defect-detection techniques. 194-203
  

Software operation and evolution

• Clemente Izurieta, James M. Bieman:
  The evolution of FreeBSD and Linux. 204-211
  
• Gengshen Du, Jim McElroy, Günther Ruhe:
  A family of empirical studies to compare informal and optimization-based planning of software releases. 212-221
  
• Audris Mockus:
  Empirical estimates of software availability of deployed systems. 222-231
  

Software development and developers

• John Karn, Tony Cowling:
  A follow up study of the effect of personality on the performance of software engineering teams. 232-241
  
• Odd Petter N. Slyngstad, Anita Gupta, Reidar Conradi, Parastoo Mohagheghi, Harald Rønneberg, Einar Landre:
  An empirical study of developers views on software reuse in statoil ASA. 242-251
  
• Muhammad Ali Babar, Barbara A. Kitchenham, D. Ross Jeffery:
  Distributed versus face-to-face meetings for architecture evalution: a controlled experiment. 252-261
  

Software testing

• Ossi Taipale, Kari Smolander:
  Improving software testing by observing practice. 262-271
  
• Jing Guan, Jeff Offutt, Paul Ammann:
  An industrial case study of structural testing applied to safety-critical embedded software. 272-277
  
• Jeffrey Carver, Marc Fisher II, Gregg Rothermel:
  An empirical evaluation of a testing and debugging methodology for Excel. 278-287
  

Architecture and refactoring

• Steve Counsell, Youssef Hassoun, George Loizou, Rajaa Najjar:
  Common refactorings, a dependency graph and some code smells: an empirical study of Java OSS. 288-296
  
• Mika Mäntylä, Casper Lassenius:
  Drivers for software refactoring decisions. 297-306
  
• Muhammad Ali Babar, Stefan Biffl:
  Eliciting better quality architecture evaluation scenarios: a controlled experiment on top-down vs. bottom-up. 307-315
  

Metrics and measurement

• Patrik Berander, Per Jönsson:
  A goal question metric based approach for efficient measurement framework definition. 316-325
  
• Lena Karlsson, Martin Höst, Björn Regnell:
  Evaluating the practical use of different measurement scales in requirements prioritisation. 326-335
  

Defect classification

• Gursimran Singh Walia, Jeffrey Carver, Thomas Philip:
  Requirement error abstraction and classification: an empirical study. 336-345
  
• Taiga Nakamura, Lorin Hochstein, Victor R. Basili:
  Identifying domain-specific defect classes using inspections and change history. 346-355
  

Test-driven development

• Thirumalesh Bhat, Nachiappan Nagappan:
  Evaluating the efficacy of test-driven development: industrial case studies. 356-363
  
• Gerardo Canfora, Aniello Cimitile, Félix García, Mario Piattini, Corrado Aaron Visaggio:
  Evaluating advantages of test driven development: a controlled experiment with professionals. 364-371