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most citedTeaching Software Metrology: The Science of Measurement for Software Engineering

1 citations · 1 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.SE2026

Assessing the Construct Validity of Object-Oriented, Class-Level Code Quality Metrics

Hera Arif, Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph

Background: Code quality metrics are intended to measure latent properties of software source code. Although numerous code metrics have been proposed and used, their construct vali…

cs.SE2026

How Do Software Professionals Evaluate AI-Generated Code? (Registered Report)

Samuli Määttä, Hera Arif, Burak Turhan +2

Recent advances in generative AI tools have significantly changed how software professionals write, evaluate, and interact with code. Generative AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Ch…

cs.SE2025

Staying or Leaving? How Job Satisfaction, Embeddedness and Antecedents Predict Turnover Intentions of Software Professionals

Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu +13

Context: Voluntary turnover is common in the software industry, increasing recruitment and onboarding costs and the risk of losing organizational and tacit knowledge. Objective: Th…

cs.SE2025

The Software Infrastructure Attitude Scale (SIAS): A Questionnaire Instrument for Measuring Professionals' Attitudes Toward Technical and Sociotechnical Infrastructure

Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu +19

Context: Recent software engineering (SE) research has highlighted the need for sociotechnical research, implying a demand for customized psychometric scales. Objective: We define…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Teaching Software Metrology: The Science of Measurement for Software Engineering

Paul Ralph, Miikka Kuutila, Hera Arif +1

While the methodological rigor of computing research has improved considerably in the past two decades, quantitative software engineering research is hampered by immature measures…