Assessing the maintenance process through replicated, controlled experiments
Journal of Systems and Software
Assessment of a renewal process experimented in the field
Journal of Systems and Software
Understanding and improving technology transfer in software engineering
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on invited articles on top systems and software engineering scholars
Ageing of a data-intensive legacy system: symptoms and remedies
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Value-based decision model for renewal processes in software maintenance
Annals of Software Engineering
Measurement Programs in Software Development: Determinants of Success
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Iterative Reengineering of Legacy Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Full Reuse Maintenance Process for Reducing Software Degradation
CSMR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
An Empirical Study of Distributed Software Maintenance
ICSM '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'02)
Software Renewal Projects Estimation Using Dynamic Calibration
ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
ISESE '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
Evidence-Based Software Engineering for Practitioners
IEEE Software
A Survey of Controlled Experiments in Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Model for Technology Transfer in Practice
IEEE Software
Emerging Methods, Technologies and Process Management in Software Engineering
Emerging Methods, Technologies and Process Management in Software Engineering
Assessing multiview framework (MF) comprehensibility and efficiency: A replicated experiment
Information and Software Technology
Empirical studies as a basis for technology transfer
Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Empirical software engineering issues: critical assessment and future directions
Experimentation in Software Engineering
Experimentation in Software Engineering
Case Study Research in Software Engineering: Guidelines and Examples
Case Study Research in Software Engineering: Guidelines and Examples
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Context: technology transfer and innovation dissemination are key success factors for an enterprise. The shift to a new software technology determines inevitable changes to ingrained and familiar processes and at the same time leads to changes in practices, requires training and commitment on behalf of technical staff and management. As so, it cannot leave out neither organizational nor technical factors. Objective: our conjecture is that the process of innovation dissemination is facilitated if the new technology is supported by empirical evidence. In this sense, Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) serves as support for transferring an innovation, either it being a process or product, within production processes. Method: this paper investigates the relation between empirical studies and technical/organizational factors in order to identify the most suitable empirical study for disseminating an innovation in an enterprise. The analysis has been carried out with respect to empirical studies carried out during a ten year time span within the Software Engineering Research LABoratory (SERLAB), at the University of Bari. Results: the results point out that a critical factor in designing empirical studies is the quality model, i.e. measurement program defined by researchers during the study and used to collect relevant information on the effectiveness and efficacy of the innovation being transferred, in order to gain commitment on behalf of stakeholders who will finally adopt the technology. Conclusion: the study outcomes provide an empirically founded guideline that can be used when choosing the most appropriate approach for addressing an innovation.