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Another Systematic Review? A Critical Analysis of Systematic Literature Reviews on Agile Effort and Cost Estimation
Henry Edison, Nauman Ali
Background: Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have become prevalent in software engineering research. Several researchers may conduct SLRs on similar topics without a prospectiv…
A proposal and assessment of an improved heuristic for the Eager Test smell detection
Huynh Khanh Vi Tran, Nauman bin Ali, Michael Unterkalmsteiner +1
Context: The evidence for the prevalence of test smells at the unit testing level has relied on the accuracy of detection tools, which have seen intense research in the last two de…
Quality attributes of test cases and test suites -- importance & challenges from practitioners' perspectives
Huynh Khanh Vi Tran, Nauman bin Ali, Michael Unterkalmsteiner +2
Context: The quality of the test suites and the constituent test cases significantly impacts confidence in software testing. While research has identified several quality attribute…
Software analytics for software engineering: A tertiary review
Muhammad Laiq, Nauman bin Ali, Jürgen Börstler +1
Software analytics (SA) is frequently proposed as a tool to support practitioners in software engineering (SE) tasks. We have observed that several secondary studies on SA have bee…