Browsing SERL - Software Engineering Research Laboratory by Author "Shepperd, M"

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    • Data accumulation and software effort prediction

      MacDonell, SG; Shepperd, M (IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010)
      BACKGROUND: In reality project managers are constrained by the incremental nature of data collection. Specifically, project observations are accumulated one project at a time. Likewise within-project data are accumulated ...

    • Evaluating prediction systems in software project estimation

      Shepperd, M; MacDonell, SG (Elsevier, 2012)
      Context Software engineering has a problem in that when we empirically evaluate competing prediction systems we obtain conflicting results. Objective To reduce the inconsistency amongst validation study results and ...

    • How reliable are systematic reviews in empirical software engineering?

      MacDonell, S; Shepperd, M; Kitchenham, B; Mendes, E (IEEE Computer Society, 2010)
      BACKGROUND-The systematic review is becoming a more commonly employed research instrument in empirical software engineering. Before undue reliance is placed on the outcomes of such reviews it would seem useful to consider ...

    • Integrate the GM(1,1) and Verhulst models to predict software stage effort

      Wang, Y; Song, QB; MacDonell, S; Shepperd, M; Shen, JY (IEEE Computer Systems, 2009)
      Software effort prediction clearly plays a crucial role in software project management. In keeping with more dynamic approaches to software development, it is not sufficient to only predict the whole-project effort at an ...