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Professor Tracy Hall

Chair in Software Engineering

  1. 2018
  2. Published

    Reproducibility and replicability of software defect prediction studies

    Mahmood, Z., Bowes, D., Hall, T., Lane, P. C. R. & Petrić, J., 1/07/2018, In: Information and Software Technology. 99, p. 148-163 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineReview articlepeer-review

  3. 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

  4. Published

    The relationship between evolutionary coupling and defects in large industrial software (journal-first abstract)

    Kirbas, S., Caglayan, B., Hall, T., Counsell, S., Bowes, D., Sen, A. & Bener, A., 2/04/2018, 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2018 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 471 1 p.

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

  5. 2017
  6. 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

  7. Published

    Assert use and defectiveness in industrial code

    Counsell, S., Hall, T., Shippey, T., Bowes, D., Tahir, A. & MacDonell, S., 14/11/2017, Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops, ISSREW 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 20-23 4 p. 8109241

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

  8. Published

    Getting defect prediction into industrial practice: The ELFF tool

    Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Petric, J. & Shippey, T., 14/11/2017, Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops, ISSREW 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 44-47 4 p. 8109247

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

  9. Published

    How Good Are My Tests?

    Bowes, D., Hall, T., Petrić, J., Shippey, T. & Turhan, B., 3/07/2017, 2017 IEEE/ACM 8th Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics (WETSoM). IEEE Computer Society, p. 9-14 6 p. 7968009. (2017 IEEE/ACM 8th Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics (WETSoM)).

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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 2016
  13. Published

    Building an Ensemble for Software Defect Prediction Based on Diversity Selection

    Petrić, J., Bowes, D., Hall, T., Christianson, B. & Baddoo, N., 8/09/2016, ESEM '16 Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 10 p. 46

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

  14. Published

    So You Need More Method Level Datasets for Your Software Defect Prediction? Voilà!

    Shippey, T., Hall, T., Counsell, S. & Bowes, D., 8/09/2016, ESEM '16 Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. New York: IEEE Computer Society, 6 p. 12

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

  15. Published

    Mutation-aware fault prediction

    Bowes, D., Hall, T., Harman, M., Jia, Y., Sarro, F. & Wu, F., 18/07/2016, ISSTA 2016 Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 330-341 12 p.

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

  16. Published

    The Jinx on the NASA software defect data sets

    Petrić, J., Bowes, D., Hall, T., Christianson, B. & Baddoo, N., 1/06/2016, EASE '16 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 5 p. 13

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

  17. 2015
  18. Published

    Different classifiers find different defects although with different level of consistency

    Bowes, D., Hall, T. & Petrić, J., 21/10/2015, PROMISE '15 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 10 p.

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

  19. Published

    What is the impact of imbalance on software defect prediction performance?

    Mahmood, Z., Bowes, D., Lane, P. C. R. & Hall, T., 21/10/2015, PROMISE '15 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 4

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

  20. 2014
  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 2013
  26. Published

    The inconsistent measurement of Message Chains

    Bowes, D., Randall, D. & Hall, T., 2013, 2013 4th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics (WETSoM). IEEE, p. 62-68 7 p.

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

  27. 2012
  28. Published

    A mapping study of software code cloning

    Shippey, T., Bowes, D., Chrisianson, B. & Hall, T., 2012, 16th International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2012). IEEE, p. 274-278 5 p.

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

  29. Published

    A systematic literature review on fault prediction performance in software engineering

    Hall, T., Beecham, S., Bowes, D., Gray, D. & Counsell, S., 2012, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 38, 6, p. 1276-1304 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

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