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Professor Tracy Hall

Chair in Software Engineering

  1. Conference contribution/Paper
  2. Published

    Comparing the performance of fault prediction models which report multiple performance measures: Recomputing the confusion matrix

    Bowes, D., Hall, T. & Gray, D., 2012, PROMISE '12 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering. ACM, p. 109-118 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  3. Published

    SLuRp: A tool to help large complex systematic literature reviews deliver calid and rigorous results

    Bowes, D., Hall, T. & Beecham, S., 2012, EAST'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Evidential Assessment of Software Technologies. ACM, p. 33-36 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  4. Published

    The state of machine learning methodology in software fault prediction

    Hall, T. & Bowes, D., 2012, Proceedings 2012 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2012. IEEE, p. 308-313 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  5. Published

    Program slicing-based cohesion measurement: The challenges of replicating studies using metrics

    Bowes, D., Hall, T. & Kerr, A., 2011, WETSoM '11 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics. ACM, p. 75-80 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  6. Published

    An analysis of the 'inconclusive' change report category in OSS assisted by a program slicing metric

    Counsell, S., Hall, T., Nasseri, E. & Bowes, D., 2010, 2010 36th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications. IEEE, p. 283-286 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  7. Published

    Evaluating three approaches to extracting fault data from software change repositories

    Hall, T., Bowes, D., Liebchen, G. & Wernick, P., 2010, International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement: PROFES 2010: Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. Ali Babar, M., Viermaa, M. & Oivo, M. (eds.). Springer, p. 107-115 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  8. Published

    Fault analysis in OSS based on program slicing metrics

    Black, S., Counsell, S., Hall, T. & Bowes, D., 2009, 2009 35th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications. IEEE, p. 3-10 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  9. Conference paper
  10. Published

    Exploiting fault localisation for efficient program repair: 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020

    Nowack, V., Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S., Winter, E., Woodward, J. & SIGEVO, ACM., 8/07/2020, p. 311-312. 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  11. Journal article
  12. E-pub ahead of print

    The Impact of Hard and Easy Negative Training Data on Vulnerability Prediction Performance

    Debeyan, F., Madeyski, L., Hall, T. & Bowes, D., 31/05/2024, In: Journal of Systems and Software. 211, 112003.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Fault-insertion and fault-fixing behavioural patterns in Apache Software Foundation Projects

    Ortu, M., Destefanis, G., Hall, T. & Bowes, D., 30/06/2023, In: Information and Software Technology. 158, 21 p., 107187.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    How do developers really feel about bug fixing? Directions for automatic program repair

    Winter, E., Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S., Nowack, V. & Woodward, J., 1/04/2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49, 4, p. 1823-1841 19 p., 4.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Let's Talk With Developers, Not About Developers: A Review of Automatic Program Repair Research

    Winter, E., Nowack, V., Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S. & Woodward, J., 31/01/2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49, 1, p. 419-436 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    How Software Developers Mitigate their Errors when Developing Code

    Hall, T., 30/06/2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 48, 6, p. 1853-1867 15 p., 6.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    On the Introduction of Automatic Program Repair in Bloomberg

    Kirbas, S., Windels, E., McBello, O., Kells, K., Pagano, M., Szalanski, R., Nowack, V., Winter, E., Counsell, S., Bowes, D., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S. & Woodward, J., 31/07/2021, In: IEEE Software. 38, 4, p. 43-51 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Reducing Software Developer Human Errors by Improving Situation Awareness

    Nageria, B. & Hall, T., 1/11/2020, In: IEEE Software. 37, 6, p. 32-37 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Automatically Identifying Code Features for Software Defect Prediction: Using AST N-grams

    Shippey, T., Bowes, D. & Hall, T., 02/2019, In: Information and Software Technology. 106, p. 142-160 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Authors' reply to 'comments on 'researcher bias: The use of machine learning in software defect prediction''

    Shepperd, M., Hall, T. & Bowes, D., 1/11/2018, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 44, 11, p. 1129-1131 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Software defect prediction: do different classifiers find the same defects?

    Bowes, D., Hall, T. & Petrić, J., 1/06/2018, In: Software Quality Journal. 26, 2, p. 525-552 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Biochar modulates heavy metal toxicity and improves microbial carbon use efficiency in soil

    Xu, Y., Seshadri, B., Sarkar, B., Wang, H., Rumpel, C., Sparks, D., Farrell, M., Hall, T., Yang, X. & Bolan, N., 1/12/2017, In: Science of the Total Environment. 621, p. 148-159 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    The relationship between evolutionary coupling and defects in large industrial software

    Kirbas, S., Caglayan, B., Hall, T., Counsell, S., Bowes, D., Sen, A. & Bener, A., 1/04/2017, In: Journal of Software: Evolution and Process. 29, 4, e1842.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Evolutionary coupling measurement: Making sense of the current chaos

    Kirbas, S., Hall, T. & Sen, A., 15/02/2017, In: Science of Computer Programming. 135, p. 4-19 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Some code smells have a significant but small effect on faults

    Hall, T., Bowes, D., Sun, Y. & Zhang, M., 08/2014, In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 23, 4, 39 p., 33.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Researcher bias: The use of machine learning in software defect prediction

    Shepperd, M., Bowes, D. & Hall, T., 1/06/2014, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 40, 6, p. 603-616 14 p., 6824804.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

    DConfusion: A technique to allow cross study performance evaluation of fault prediction studies

    Bowes, D., Hall, T. & Gray, D., 04/2014, In: Automated Software Engineering. 21, 2, p. 287-313 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    Factors that motivate software engineering teams: A four country empirical study

    Verner, J. M., Babar, M. A., Cerpa, N., Hall, T. & Beecham, S., 25/01/2014, In: Journal of Systems and Software. 92, p. 115-127 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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