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most citedAssessing Practitioner Beliefs about Software Defect Prediction

21 citations · 41 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.SE2021★ 4 cited

PyTorrent: A Python Library Corpus for Large-scale Language Models

Mehdi Bahrami, N. C. Shrikanth, Shade Ruangwan +6

A large scale collection of both semantic and natural language resources is essential to leverage active Software Engineering research areas such as code reuse and code comprehensi…

cs.SE2021

Assessing the Early Bird Heuristic (for Predicting Project Quality)

N. C. Shrikanth, Tim Menzies

Before researchers rush to reason across all available data or try complex methods, perhaps it is prudent to first check for simpler alternatives. Specifically, if the historical d…

cs.SE2020★ 4 cited

Early Life Cycle Software Defect Prediction. Why? How?

N. C. Shrikanth, Suvodeep Majumder, Tim Menzies

Many researchers assume that, for software analytics, "more data is better." We write to show that, at least for learning defect predictors, this may not be true. To demonstrate th…

cs.SE2020★ 7 cited

Assessing Practitioner Beliefs about Software Engineering

N. C. Shrikanth, William Nichols, Fahmid Morshed Fahid +1

Software engineering is a highly dynamic discipline. Hence, as times change, so too might our beliefs about core processes in this field. This paper checks some five beliefs that o…

cs.SE2019★ 21 cited

Assessing Practitioner Beliefs about Software Defect Prediction

N. C. Shrikanth, Tim Menzies

Just because software developers say they believe in "X", that does not necessarily mean that "X" is true. As shown here, there exist numerous beliefs listed in the recent Software…

cs.SE2019★ 2 cited

Assessing Developer Beliefs: A Reply to "Perceptions, Expectations, and Challenges in Defect Prediction"

Shrikanth N. C., Tim Menzies

It can be insightful to extend qualitative studies with a secondary quantitative analysis (where the former suggests insightful questions that the latter can answer). Documenting d…

cs.SE2018★ 3 cited

Trustworthiness in Enterprise Crowdsourcing: a Taxonomy & evidence from data

Anurag Dwarakanath, Shrikanth N. C., Kumar Abhinav +1

In this paper we study the trustworthiness of the crowd for crowdsourced software development. Through the study of literature from various domains, we present the risks that impac…