2013

 

• J M Verner, O P Brereton, B A Kitchenham, M Turner, and M Niazi. A Tertiary Study of Systematic Literature Reviews in Global Software Development, accepted , IST, January 2013

• B. Kitchenham, D.I.K. Sjøberg, T. Dybå, O.P. Brereton, D. Budgen, M. Höst and P. Runeson, Trends in the quality of human-intensive software engineering experiments – A quasi-experiment. In press, IEEE Trans on Software Engineering

 

2012

 

• Major, L., Kyriacou, T. and Brereton, O.P. (2012) Systematic Literature Review: Teaching Novices Programming Using Robots. IET Software, 6 (6), pp. 502 - 513.
  
• Major, L., Kyriacou, T. and Brereton, P. (2012) Teaching Novices Programming Using a Robot Simulator: Case Study Protocol. In 24th Psychology of Programming Interest Group Annual Conference (PPIG 2012), London Metropolitan University, UK, 21 - 23 November 2012. PPIG. pp. 93 - 104.  

• Barbara Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, and David Budgen, Mapping study completeness and reliability – a case study. Proceedings of EASE 2012 Ciudad Real, May 2012.

• J M Verner, O P Brereton, B A Kitchenham, M Turner, and M Niazi. Systematic literature reviews in global software engineering development: A tertiary study. Proceedings of EASE 2012 Ciudad Real, May 2012.

• Barbara Kitchenham, Dag I.K. Sjøberg, Tore Dybå, Dietmar Pfahl, Pearl Brereton, David Budgen, Martin Höst, Per Runeson, Three Empirical Studies on the Agreement of Reviewers about the Quality of Software Engineering Experiments, Information and Software Technology 54 (2012) 804–819

• David Budgen, Sarah Drummond, Pearl Brereton & Nikki Holland, What scope is there for adopting evidence-informed teaching in SE?, ICSE Education track, 2012.

 

2011

 

• Major, L., Kyriacou, T. and Brereton, P. (2011) Simulated Robotic Agents As Tools To Teach Introductory Programming. In International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2011), Valencia, Spain, 7 - 9 March 2011. pp. 3837-3846. ISBN 978-84-614-7423-3.
• Major, L.; Kyriacou, T.; Brereton, O. P. "Systematic literature review: Teaching novices programming using robots," 15th Annual Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2011), pp.21-30, 11-12 April 2011, doi: 10.1049/ic.2011.0003

• Barbara Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, Zhi Li, David Budgen and Andrew Burn (2011), Repeatability of systematic literature reviews, 15th Annual Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2011), pp.46-55, 11-12 April 2011, 10.1049/ic.2011.0006

• Barbara A. Kitchenham, David Budgen, Pearl Brereton, Using mapping studies as the basis for further research - A participant-observer case study, Information and Software Technology, Volume 53, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 638-651

 

 

2010

 

• David Budgen, Andrew Burn, Rialette Pretorius, Pearl Brereton and Barbara Kitchenham (2010), .Empirical evidence about the UML: a systematic literature review, Software – Practice and Experience,(2010), DOI: 10.1002/spe.1009

• Barbara Kitchenham, Rialette Pretorius, David Budgen, O. Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, Mahmood Niazi
• and Stephen Linkman (2010). “Systematic Literature Reviews—A Tertiary Study, Information and Software Technology, Volume 52, Issue 8, August 2010, Pages 792-805

• Barbara Kitchenham, Dag I.K. Sjøberg, O. Pearl Brereton, David Budgen, Tore Dybå, Martin Höst, Per Runeson and Dietmar Pfahl, Can We Evaluate the Quality of Software Engineering Experiments? , Proceedings of the Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2010, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy 16-17th September.

• Barbara Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, Mahmood Niazi, Stephen Linkman, Rialette Pretorius and David Budgen (2010). “Refining the Systematic Literature Review Process—Two Participant-Observer
• Case Studies”, Empirical Software Engineering. Volume 15, Number 6, 618-653, DOI: 10.1007/s10664-010-9134-8

• Barbara Kitchenham and Pearl Brereton, Problems Adopting Metrics from Other Disciplines, Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics, May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, ACM, pp 1-7.

• Mark Turner, Barbara Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, Stuart Charters, David Budgen, (2010)  Does the Technology Acceptance Model predict Actual Use? A Systematic Literature Review, Information and Software Technology, Volume 52, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 463-479

• Barbara Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton and David Budgen (2010). The Educational Value of Mapping Studies of Software Engineering Literature, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, ACM, pp 589-598

• Barbara Kitchenham, David Budgen and Pearl Brereton (2010). The value of mapping studies – A participant-observer case study, in Proceedings  EASE 2010, BCS - eWiC

• Woodall P. and Brereton P., A Systematic Literature Review of Inference Strategies, Int. J. Information and Computer Security,  International Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS), Vol. 4, No. 2, 2010
• MacDonell S, Shepperd M, Kitchenham B, Mendes E., How Reliable Are Systematic Reviews in Empirical Software Engineering?, IEEE TRANS. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 36(5):676-687 Sep 2010

• Kitchenham B., What's up with software metrics? - A preliminary mapping study, J SYST SOFTWARE,  83(1), 37-51 Jan 2010

 

 

2009

 

 

• Niazi, M. (2009), What can Undermine Software Process Improvement Implementation Initiatives, /CrossTalk/, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, 22(1), 24, 27
• Barbara Kitchenham, O Pearl Brereton, David Budgen, Mark Turner, John Bailey and Stephen Linkman (2009). “Systematic literature reviews in software engineering – A systematic literature review”, Information & Software Technology, 51(1), 7-15.

• D Budgen, J. Bailey, M. Turner, B. Kitchenham, P. Brereton, S Charters (2009)  Cross-domain investigation of empirical practices, IET Software, Volume 3, Issue 5, p.410–421

• Jefferies C., Brereton O.P. & Turner M. (2009). A Comparison of Binding Technologies for Multi-Channel Access. In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (201) pp 149-154

• 'Techniques and Applications for Mobile Commerce Proceedings of TAMoCo 2009' September 2009

• Barbara Kitchenham, David Budgen, O. Pearl Brereton, Evidence-based Software Engineering and Systematic Literature Reviews, invited paper, Journal of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, 2009

• Barbara Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, Mahmood Niazi, Stephen Linkman, Rialette Pretorius and David Budgen, The Impact of Limited Search Procedures for Systematic Literature Reviews – A Participant-Observer Case Study, October 2009 in Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ESEM), pp336-345.

• Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, Rumjit Kaur (2009) Pair programming as a teaching tool: a student review of empirical studies, in Proceedings of 22nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, February 2009, Hyderabad, India, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 240-247.

• David Budgen, Stuart Charters, Mark Turner, Barbara Kitchenham, O. Pearl Brereton and Stephen Linkman (2009). “Objectivity in Research: Challenges from the Evidence-Based Paradigm”, 20th Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC 2009. 14-17 April 2009, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 73-80.

• Barbara Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, David Budgen and Zhi Li (2009). “An Evaluation of Quality Checklist Proposals – A participant-observer case study”, in Proceedings of EASE 2009, BCS-eWiC.

 

2008

 

• Ali-Babar M. and Niazi M. (2008), Implementing Software Process Improvement Initiatives: An Analysis of Vietnamese Practitioners. Views, IEEE international conference on global software engineering (ICGSE 2008), 67,76
• Kitchenham B.A., Brereton O.P., Owen S.C., Butcher J. and Jefferies C. (2008). “Length and readability of structured software engineering abstracts”, IET Software, 2(1), 37-45
• Budgen D., Kitchenham B.A., Brereton O.P., Turner M., Charters S.C. and Linkman S.G. (2008). “Employing the evidence-based paradigm for technology-related decision making”, Evidence & Policy, 4(2), 149-169
• Niazi M., Hickman C., Ali-Babar M. and Ahmad R. (2008), A Model for Requirements Change Management: Implementation of CMMI Level 2 Specific Practice, International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES), LNCS 5089, 143-157, Italy
• Zhang H, Kitchenham B & Pfahl D. (2008). “Reflections on 10 Years of Software Process Simulation Modeling: A Systematic Review”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Software Process (ICSP’08), Leipzig, Germany, 10-11 May, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 345-356
• Budgen D, Kitchenham B.A., Charters S., Turner M., Brereton O. P. & Linkman S. G. (2008). “Presenting Software Engineering Results using Structured Abstracts: A Randomised Experiment”, Empirical Software Engineering, 13(4), 435-468
• Turner M., Kitchenham B.A, Budgen D. and Brereton O.P (2008). “Lessons learnt Undertaking a Large-scale Systematic Literature Review”, in Proceedings of EASE 2008, BCS-eWiC
• Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Ali Babar and Suhaimi Ibrahim (2008), An Empirical Study Identifying High Perceived Value Practices of CMMI Level 2, International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES), LNCS 5089, 427-441, Italy
• Brereton O.P., Kitchenham B.A, Budgen D. and Zhi Li (2008). “Using a Protocol Template for Case Study Planning”, in Proceedings of EASE 2008, BCS-eWIC
• Budgen D., Bailey J, Turner M., Kitchenham B.A., Brereton O.P and Charters S. (2008). “Lessons from a Cross-domain Investigation of Empirical Practices”, in Proceedings of EASE 2008, BCSeWiC,
• Khan S., Niazi M., Ahmad R. (2008), A Systematic Literature Review Protocol for a Software Outsourcing Vendors Readiness Model (SOVRM), International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, August, Bannu.
• Khan S, Niazi M., Ahmad R. (2008), A Readiness Model for Software Development Outsourcing Vendors, Doctoral Symposium, IEEE international conference on global software engineering (ICGSE 2008), India August.
• Clive Jefferies, Pearl Brereton and Mark Turner (2008) A Systematic Literature Review to Investigate Reengineering Existing Systems for Multi-Channel Access, Accepted for CSMR, April 2008
• Budgen D., Kitchenham B., Brereton P., Turner M., Charters S. and Linkman S. (2008). Transferring the evidence-based paradigm into technology-related decision making: Observations arising from performing a systematic review of the Technology Acceptance Model. in press J. of Evidence & Policy.
• Kitchenham B.A, Brereton O.P, Owen S., Butcher J. and Jefferies C. (2008), Length and Readability of Structured Software Engineering Abstracts, in press, IET Software.
• Mahmood Niazi, Karl Cox and June Verner (2008), A Measurement Process for Assessing the Maturity of Requirements Engineering Process, Software Quality Journal, 6(2), 213 - 235
• Staples M and Niazi M. (2008), Systematic Review of Organizational Motivations for Adopting CMM-based SPI, Information and Software Technology Journal, 50(7-8), 605-620
• Staples M. and Niazi M. (2008). Experiences Using Systematic Review Guidelines, Journal of Systems and Software, 80(9), 1425-1437 .
• Niazi M. and Ali-Babar M. (2008), De-motivators for software process improvement: An empirical investigation, Software Process Improvement and Practice Journal, 13(3), 249-264.
• Zhang H, Kitchenham B & Pfahl D. (2008). “Software Process simulation over Decade: Trends Discovery from a Systematic Review”, in Proceedings of 2nd ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2008, 345-347.
• Clive Jefferies, Pearl Brereton & Mark Turner (2008). “A Systematic Literature Review to Investigate Reeningeering Existing Systems for Multi-Channel Access”, in Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), Athens, April, 258-262.
• David Budgen, Mark Turner, Pearl Brereton & Barbara Kitchenham (2008). “Using Mapping Studies in Software Engineering”, Proceedings of PPIG 2008, Lancaster University, 195-204.
• Mark Turner, Rumjit Kaur & Pearl Brereton (2008). “A Lightweight Systematic Literature Review of Studies about the use of Pair Programming to Teach Introductory Programming”, Proceedings of PPIG 2008, Lancaster University.