Publications


Selected papers authored by group members include:

Hierons, RM., Generating Complete Controllable Test Suites for Distributed Testing, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (Accepted)

Hierons, RM., Combining centralised and distributed testing, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (Accepted)

Segura, S., Parejo, JA., Hierons, RM., Benavides, D. and Ruiz-Cortés, A., Automated generation of computationally hard feature models using evolutionary algorithms, Expert Systems with Applications 41 (8) : 3975- 3992, 2014

Hall T, Zhang M, Bowes D, Sun Y (2014) ‘Some Code Smells have a Significant but Small Effect on Faults’, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2014

Hierons, RM., Implementation Relations for Testing Through Asynchronous Channels, The Computer Journal 56 (11) : 1305- 1319, 2013

Androutsopoulos, K., Clark, D., Harman, M., Hierons, RM., Li, Z. and Tratt, L., Amorphous slicing of extended finite state machines, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2013

Hierons, RM., Reaching and Distinguishing States of Distributed Systems, SIAM Journal on Computing, 39 8, pp. 3480-3500, 2010.

Shepperd M, Bowes D, Hall T (2014) ‘Researcher Bias in Machine Learning’, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 40, no. 6, June, 2014

J.M. Verner, M.A. Babar, N. Cerpa, T. Hall, S. Beecham (2014), Factors that motivate software engineering teams: A four country empirical study, Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 92, June 2014, Pages 115-127

Bowes D, Hall T and Gray D. (2014) ‘DConfusion: a technique to allow cross study performance evaluation of fault prediction studies’ Automated Software Engineering, April 2014, Volume 21, Issue 2, pp 287-313

Hall T, Beecham S, Bowes D, Gray D and Counsell S (2012) ‘Systematic Literature Review on Fault Prediction Performance in Software Engineering’ IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Nov/Dec , 38(6), pp. 1276-1304

Shepperd, M., Song, Q., Sun, Z. and Mair, C., Data Quality: Some Comments on the NASA Software Defect Datasets, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 39 (9) : 1208- 1215
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2013.11, 2013

Capiluppi, A. and Izquierdo-Cortázar, D., Effort estimation of FLOSS projects: A study of the Linux kernel, Empirical Software Engineering 1- 29  DOI: 10.1007/s10664-011-9191-7, 2011

Song, QB., Jia, ZH., Shepperd, M., Ying, S. and Liu, J., A general software defect-proneness prediction framework, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 37 (3) : 356- 370 DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2010.90, 2011

MacDonell, S., Shepperd, M., Kitchenham, B. and Mendes, E., How reliable are systematic reviews in empirical software engineering?, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 36 (5) : 676- 687
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2010.2, 2010

Wang, Y., Song, Q., MacDonell, S., Shepperd, M. and Shen, J., Integrate the GM(1,1) and Verhulst models to predict software stage-effort, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – Part C 39 (6) : 647- 658 DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2020690, 2009

Stopford, B. and Counsell, S., A framework for the simulation of structural software evolution, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) 18 (4) : 17
DOI: 10.1145/1391978.1391983, 2008