Browsing by Author "Holmes, Reid"

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    The End-to-End Use of Source Code Examples: An Exploratory Study - Appendix
    (2009-06-15T17:54:07Z) Holmes, Reid; Cottrell, Rylan; Walker, Robert; Denzinger, Joerg
    This appendix contains the details of our case studies outlined in our paper for the 2009 International Conference on Software Maintenance, as well as an expanded discussion section. The reader is directed to the main paper for introduction, motivation, and related work.
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    A Lightweight Approach to Technical Risk Estimation via Probabilistic Impact Analysis
    (2006-02-15) Walker, Robert J.; Holmes, Reid; Hedgeland, Ian; Kapur, Puneet; Smith, Andrew
    An evolutionary development approach is increasingly commonplace in industry but presents increased difficulties in risk management, for both technical and organizational reasons. In this context, technical risk is the product of the probability of a technical event and the cost of that event. This paper presents a technique for more objectively assessing and communicating technical risk in an evolutionary development setting that (1) operates atop weaklyestimated knowledge of the changes to be made, (2) analyzes the past change history and current structure of a system to estimate the probability of change propagation, and (3) can be discussed vertically within an organization both with development staff and high-level management. A tool realizing this technique has been developed for the Eclipse IDE.
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    Pragmatic software reuse
    (2008) Holmes, Reid; Walker, Robert J.