ICDL '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Dynamic languages: in conjunction with the 15th International Smalltalk Joint Conference 2007
An industrial case study of architecture conformance
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Assessing architectural drift in commercial software development: a case study
Software—Practice & Experience
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It is the view of many computer scientists that the standard of empirical software engineering research leaves scope for improvement. However, there is also an increasing awareness in the software engineering community that empirical studies are a vital aspect in the process of improving methods and tools, for software development and maintenance. This paper presents a review of the empirical work carried out to date in the area of program comprehension and illustrates that most of the evidence from these studies derives from lab-based experiments, thus implying a degree of artificial control. The paper argues that, in order to address the methodological shortfalls of the experimental paradigm, more qualitative methods need to be applied to accompany and support these quantitative studies, thus broadening the sources of data and increasing the ýbody of evidenceý.