Search Results - "MacDonell, Stephen"

A Perspective-Based Understanding of Project Success by McLeod, Laurie, Doolin, Bill, MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…Answering the call for alternative approaches to researching project management, we explore the evaluation of project success from a subjectivist perspective…”
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Perceptions on the Utility of Community Question and Answer Websites Like Stack Overflow to Software Developers by Ndukwe, Ifeanyi G., Licorish, Sherlock A., MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…Software developers make use of on crowdsourcing during development. Beyond learning from others, developers use online portals such as Stack Overflow as a…”
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Exploring software developers’ work practices: Task differences, participation, engagement, and speed of task resolution by Licorish, Sherlock A., MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…•We studied IBM Jazz practitioners’ interactions and task performance.•This work mined logs from 30,646 work items (WIs) created since 3 years by 474…”
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Understanding the attitudes, knowledge sharing behaviors and task performance of core developers: A longitudinal study by Licorish, Sherlock A., MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…Prior research has established that a few individuals generally dominate project communication and source code changes during software development. Moreover,…”
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Synchronised visualisation of software process and product artefacts: Concept, design and prototype implementation by Alshakhouri, Mujtaba, Buchan, Jim, MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…Most prior software visualisation (SV) research has focused primarily on making aspects of intangible software product artefacts more evident. While…”
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Improving transfer learning for software cross-project defect prediction by Omondiagbe, Osayande P., Licorish, Sherlock A., MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…Software cross-project defect prediction (CPDP) makes use of cross-project (CP) data to overcome the lack of data necessary to train well-performing software…”
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Communication and personality profiles of global software developers by Licorish, Sherlock A., MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…Prior research has established that a small proportion of individuals dominate team communication during global software development. It is not known, however,…”
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Just-in-Time crash prediction for mobile apps by Wimalasooriya, Chathrie, Licorish, Sherlock A., da Costa, Daniel Alencar, MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…Just-In-Time (JIT) defect prediction aims to identify defects early, at commit time. Hence, developers can take precautions to avoid defects when the code…”
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Technical debt and agile software development practices and processes: An industry practitioner survey by Holvitie, Johannes, Licorish, Sherlock A., Spínola, Rodrigo O., Hyrynsalmi, Sami, MacDonell, Stephen G., Mendes, Thiago S., Buchan, Jim, Leppänen, Ville

“…•Agile software development practices and processes have an effect on technical debt.•Agile practices safe-guarding software implementation have the most…”
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Exploring the links between software development task type, team attitudes and task completion performance: Insights from the Jazz repository by Licorish, Sherlock A., MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…In seeking to better understand the impact of various human factors involved in software development, and how teams’ attitudes relate to their performance,…”
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Does class size matter? An in-depth assessment of the effect of class size in software defect prediction by Tahir, Amjed, Bennin, Kwabena E., Xiao, Xun, MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…In the past 20 years, defect prediction studies have generally acknowledged the effect of class size on software prediction performance. To quantify the…”
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A Risk Assessment Framework for Mobile Apps in Mobile Cloud Computing Environments by Ogwara, Noah Oghenefego, Petrova, Krassie, Yang, Mee Loong, MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…Mobile devices (MDs) are used by mobile cloud computing (MCC) customers and by other users because of their portability, robust connectivity, and ability to…”
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Investigating the Significance of the Bellwether Effect to Improve Software Effort Prediction: Further Empirical Study by Mensah, Solomon, Keung, Jacky, MacDonell, Stephen G., Bosu, Michael Franklin, Bennin, Kwabena Ebo

“…Context: In addressing how best to estimate how much effort is required to develop software, a recent study found that using exemplary and recently completed…”
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Diagnosable-by-Design Model-Driven Development for IEC 61499 Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems by Dowdeswell, Barry, Sinha, Roopak, MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…Integrating the design and creation of fault identification and diagnostic capabilities into Model-Driven Development methodologies is one approach to…”
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Rethinking workforce planning for integrated care: using scenario analysis to facilitate policy development by Rees, Gareth H, Crampton, Peter, Gauld, Robin, MacDonell, Stephen

“…A goal of health workforce planning is to have the most appropriate workforce available to meet prevailing needs. However, this is a difficult task when…”
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Architecting an Agent-Based Fault Diagnosis Engine for IEC 61499 Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems by Dowdeswell, Barry, Sinha, Roopak, MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…IEC 61499 is a reference architecture for constructing Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS). However, current function block development environments only…”
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Employing Agent Beliefs during Fault Diagnosis for IEC 61499 Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems by Dowdeswell, Barry, Sinha, Roopak, Jarvis, Dennis, Jarvis, Jacqueline, MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…We have come to rely on industrial-scale cyber-physical systems more and more to manage tasks and machinery in safety-critical situations. Efficient, reliable…”
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Understanding technology use in global virtual teams: Research methodologies and methods by Clear, Tony, MacDonell, Stephen G.

“…The globalisation of activities associated with software development and use has introduced many challenges in practice, and also (therefore) many for…”
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Qualitative research on software development: a longitudinal case study methodology by McLeod, Laurie, MacDonell, Stephen G., Doolin, Bill

“…This paper reports the use of a qualitative methodology for conducting longitudinal case study research on software development. We provide a detailed…”
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Designing Actively Secure, Highly Available Industrial Automation Applications by Tanveer, Awais, Sinha, Roopak, MacDonell, Stephen G., Leitao, Paulo, Vyatkin, Valeriy

“…Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) execute critical control software that drives Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS). PLCs can become easy…”
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