Voice of Evidence

A study of a large company's software development projects indicates that quality often suffers if team members have worked together previously.

Global software engineering GSE is becoming common.

A growing number of developers are using agile practices in distributed software projects.

Innovation is important to a company's success, and a team leader's behavior is a major factor affecting group members'…

Researchers surveyed software professionals on their views regarding the effectiveness of pair programming compared to…

This article reviews scientific studies of factors influencing colocated development teams' performance and proposes five factors that…

The evolution of software to maintain its performance and usefulness over time occurs in successful software development…

Software process improvement SPI offers obstacles and opportunities for very small entities VSEs, which are…

Traditional software engineering education approaches--in-class lectures, unsupervised homework assignments, and occasional…

Researchers investigated how agile software development teams evolve.

As part of the Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering NaPiRE initiative, researchers compared problems that companies in…

Today's software development challenges require learning teams that can continuously apply new engineering and management practices, new and…

A mapping study of design pattern literature combined with two follow-on surveys shows only limited empirical evidence that the "Gang of Four"…

A close look at the evidence underpinning the original concept of lean production and its popular interpretation reveals the inherent challenges of…

Default causal analysis DCA or defect prevention is required by higher-maturity-level software development processes such as the…

To succeed, a software quality improvement SQI initiative must reflect organizational culture and the values that compose it.

Conway's law, also called the mirroring hypothesis, predicts that a development organization will inevitably design systems that mirror its…

A systematic review of the research literature on fault-prediction models from 2000 through 2010 identified 36 studies that sufficiently…

Two studies of testing practices for software product lines identify gaps between required techniques and existing approaches in…

A systematic review of global software engineering GSE literature from 2000 to 2007 shows the field to be immature.

Across the spectrum of software organizations-from traditional software houses to service providers, in both public and private…

What if someone argued that one of your basic conceptions about how to develop software was misguided What would it take to change your…

A seeming multitude of software process capability/maturity models SPCMMs have emerged, and many software engineers have…

A software product line SPL is a set of software-intensive systems that share a common set of features for satisfying a particular…

As with many other industries today, software development must increasingly adapt to teams whose members work together but are geographically…

The paper discusses the software metrics programs.

Agile software development has had a huge impact on how software is developed worldwide.

There have been many claims about knowledge management's benefits in software engineering, such as decreased time and cost for…

One challenge in software engineering education is to give students sufficient hands-on experience in actually building software.

Is 25 years enough time to build up a coherent body of knowledge that can help point to useful principles As a testbed for helping us answer…

This article traces the increasing sophistication and use of software measurement over the past 25 years.

Trust is a subjective, user-centric, context-dependent concept, and is thus difficult to define universally.

Software engineers will do better work and stay with a company if they are motivated - as a result the success of software projects is likely to improve.

A rich body of experiences hasn't yet been published on all the software development techniques researchers have proposed.

Getting the requirements right is one of the most important activities in software development.

If we're going to have a column about evidence in software engineering, we're going to need to talk about inspections sooner or later.

Pair programming is a collaborative approach that makes working in pairs rather than individually the primary work style for code…

In daily life, we face any number of problems and what seems like an ever-increasing list of possible solutions.