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most citedAre Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? Revisiting Cost-to-Fix of Defects throughout the Lifecycle

28 citations · 76 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

A Controlled Experiment on the Impact of Intrusion Detection False Alarm Rate on Analyst Performance

Lucas Layman, William Roden

Organizations use intrusion detection systems (IDSes) to identify harmful activity among millions of computer network events. Cybersecurity analysts review IDS alarms to verify whe…

cs.OH2020★ 22 cited

Toward Predicting Success and Failure in CS2: A Mixed-Method Analysis

Lucas Layman, Yang Song, Curry Guinn

Factors driving success and failure in CS1 are the subject of much study but less so for CS2. This paper investigates the transition from CS1 to CS2 in search of leading indicators…

cs.CR2020★ 4 cited

Cry Wolf: Toward an Experimentation Platform and Dataset for Human Factors in Cyber Security Analysis

William Roden, Lucas Layman

Computer network defense is a partnership between automated systems and human cyber security analysts. The system behaviors, for example raising a high proportion of false alarms,…

cs.SE2016★ 28 cited

Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? Revisiting Cost-to-Fix of Defects throughout the Lifecycle

Tim Menzies, William Nichols, Forrest Shull +1

Many practitioners and academics believe in a delayed issue effect (DIE); i.e. the longer an issue lingers in the system, the more effort it requires to resolve. This belief is oft…

cs.SE2016★ 21 cited

Less is More: Minimizing Code Reorganization using XTREE

Rahul Krishna, Tim Menzies, Lucas Layman

Context: Developers use bad code smells to guide code reorganization. Yet developers, text books, tools, and researchers disagree on which bad smells are important. Objective: To e…