Barbara A. Kitchenham

Orcid: 0000-0002-6134-8460

Affiliations:
  • Keele University, Department of Computer Science, UK
  • National ICT Australia Ltd., Sydney, Australia
  • National Computing Centre, Manchester, UK
  • City University London, Centre for Software Reliability, UK
  • International Computers Limited (ICL), Kidsgrove, UK
  • University of Leeds, UK (PhD 1972)


According to our database1, Barbara A. Kitchenham authored at least 196 papers between 1985 and 2025.

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Bibliography

2025
Using rapid reviews to support software engineering practice: a systematic review and a replication study.
Empir. Softw. Eng., February, 2025

2024
Recommendations for analysing and meta-analysing small sample size software engineering experiments.
Empir. Softw. Eng., November, 2024

2023
SEGRESS: Software Engineering Guidelines for REporting Secondary Studies.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., March, 2023

How Should Software Engineering Secondary Studies Include Grey Material?
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., February, 2023

Assessing attitudes towards evidence-based software engineering in a government agency.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2023

2022
The Importance of the Correlation in Crossover Experiments.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

A longitudinal case study on the effects of an evidence-based software engineering training.
Proceedings of the 44th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training, 2022

2021
Training students in evidence-based software engineering and systematic reviews: a systematic review and empirical study.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2021

2020
Meta-analysis for families of experiments in software engineering: a systematic review and reproducibility and validity assessment.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2020

ACM SIGSOFT Empirical Standards.
CoRR, 2020

2019
Problems with Statistical Practice in Human-Centric Software Engineering Experiments.
Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment on Software Engineering, 2019

2018
Introduction to the special section on Enhancing Credibility of Empirical Software Engineering.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2018

Effect sizes and their variance for AB/BA crossover design studies.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2018

Tool Features to Support Systematic Reviews in Software Engineering ? A Cross Domain Study.
e Informatica Softw. Eng. J., 2018

2017
Would wider adoption of reproducible research be beneficial for empirical software engineering research?
J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst., 2017

Robust Statistical Methods for Empirical Software Engineering.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2017

2015
Quality of service approaches in cloud computing: A systematic mapping study.
J. Syst. Softw., 2015

Tools to support systematic reviews in software engineering: a cross-domain survey using semi-structured interviews.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2015

Robust statistical methods: why, what and how: keynote.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2015

2014
Risks and risk mitigation in global software development: A tertiary study.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2014

Tools to support systematic reviews in software engineering: a feature analysis.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2014

Empirical Software Engineering.
Proceedings of the Computing Handbook, 2014

2013
Trends in the Quality of Human-Centric Software Engineering Experiments-A Quasi-Experiment.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2013

A systematic review of systematic review process research in software engineering.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2013

Lessons from Conducting a Distributed Quasi-experiment.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2013

The Case for Knowledge Translation.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2013

2012
Toward trustworthy software process models: an exploratory study on transformable process modeling.
J. Softw. Evol. Process., 2012

Interpretation problems related to the use of regression models to decide on economy of scale in software development.
J. Syst. Softw., 2012

Three empirical studies on the agreement of reviewers about the quality of software engineering experiments.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2012

Systematic literature reviews in global software development: A tertiary study.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering, 2012

Mapping study completeness and reliability - a case study.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering, 2012

2011
Empirical evidence about the UML: a systematic literature review.
Softw. Pract. Exp., 2011

Using mapping studies as the basis for further research - A participant-observer case study.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2011

Reporting computing projects through structured abstracts: a quasi-experiment.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2011

Validating Search Processes in Systematic Literature Reviews.
Proceedings of the EAST 2011, 2011

Repeatability of systematic literature reviews.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering, 2011

What We Can Learn from Systematic Reviews.
Proceedings of the Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It., 2011

2010
How Reliable Are Systematic Reviews in Empirical Software Engineering?
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2010

What's up with software metrics? - A preliminary mapping study.
J. Syst. Softw., 2010

Does the technology acceptance model predict actual use? A systematic literature review.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2010

Systematic literature reviews in software engineering - A tertiary study.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2010

Evaluating logistic regression models to estimate software project outcomes.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2010

Refining the systematic literature review process - two participant-observer case studies.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2010

Software Process Simulation Modeling: An Extended Systematic Review.
Proceedings of the New Modeling Concepts for Today's Software Processes, 2010

The educational value of mapping studies of software engineering literature.
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, 2010

Problems adopting metrics from other disciplines.
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics, 2010

Can we evaluate the quality of software engineering experiments?
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2010

The value of mapping studies - A participant-observer case study.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2010

2009
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering - A systematic literature review.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2009

Cross-domain investigation of empirical practices.
IET Softw., 2009

Guidelines for Industrially-Based Multiple Case Studies in Software Engineering.
Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2009

Why comparative effort prediction studies may be invalid.
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Predictive Models in Software Engineering, 2009

The impact of limited search procedures for systematic literature reviews A participant-observer case study.
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2009

An Evaluation of Quality Checklist Proposals - A participant-observer case study.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2009

A Quality Checklist for Technology-Centred Testing Studies.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2009

Qualitative vs. Quantitative Software Process Simulation Modeling: Conversion and Comparison.
Proceedings of the 20th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2009), 2009

Objectivity in Research: Challenges from the Evidence-Based Paradigm.
Proceedings of the 20th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2009), 2009

2008
Analogy-X: Providing Statistical Inference to Analogy-Based Software Cost Estimation.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2008

Length and readability of structured software engineering abstracts.
IET Softw., 2008

Evaluating guidelines for reporting empirical software engineering studies.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2008

The role of replications in empirical software engineering - a word of warning.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2008

Presenting software engineering results using structured abstracts: a randomised experiment.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2008

Comparing distributed and face-to-face meetings for software architecture evaluation: A controlled experiment.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2008

Using Mapping Studies in Software Engineering.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, 2008

Reflections on 10 Years of Software Process Simulation Modeling: A Systematic Review.
Proceedings of the Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story, 2008

Software process simulation over the past decade: trends discovery from a systematic review.
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2008

Lessons learnt Undertaking a Large-scale Systematic Literature Review.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2008

Lessons from a cross domain investigation of empirical practices.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2008

Using a Protocol Template for Case Study Planning.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2008

Semi-quantitative Modeling for Managing Software Development Processes.
Proceedings of the 19th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2008), 2008

Experiments with Analogy-X for Software Cost Estimation.
Proceedings of the 19th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2008), 2008

Software Process Simulation Modeling: Facts, Trends and Directions.
Proceedings of the 15th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2008), 2008

Personal Opinion Surveys.
Proceedings of the Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering, 2008

2007
Cross versus Within-Company Cost Estimation Studies: A Systematic Review.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2007

Misleading Metrics and Unsound Analyses.
IEEE Softw., 2007

Introduction to special section on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering EASE06.
J. Syst. Softw., 2007

Lessons from applying the systematic literature review process within the software engineering domain.
J. Syst. Softw., 2007

Large-scale software engineering questions expert opinion or empirical evidence?
IET Softw., 2007

Achieving Software Project Success: A Semi-quantitative Approach.
Proceedings of the Software Process Dynamics and Agility, 2007

A Framework for Adopting Software Process Simulation in CMMI Organizations.
Proceedings of the Software Process Dynamics and Agility, 2007

2nd International Workshop on Realising Evidence-Based Software Engineering (REBSE-2).
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007), 2007

Evidence relating to Object-Oriented software design: A survey.
Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2007

The Impact of Group Size on Software Architecture Evaluation: A Controlled Experiment.
Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2007

Preliminary results of a study of the completeness and clarity of structured abstracts.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2007

Systematic Review of Statistical Process Control: An Experience Report.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2007

Assessment of a Framework for Comparing Software Architecture Analysis Methods.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2007

Planning Software Project Success with Semi-Quantitative Reasoning.
Proceedings of the 18th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2007), 2007

Optimising Project Feature Weights for Analogy-Based Software Cost Estimation using the Mantel Correlation.
Proceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2007), 2007

2006
An empirical study of groupware support for distributed software architecture evaluation process.
J. Syst. Softw., 2006

Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 05).
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2006

Investigating the applicability of the evidence-based paradigm to software engineering.
Proceedings of the 2006 Workshop on interdisciplinary software engineering research, 2006

Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Literature Reviews.
Proceedings of the Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 2006

Semi-quantitative Simulation Modeling of Software Engineering Process.
Proceedings of the Software Process Change, 2006

Evaluating guidelines for empirical software engineering studies.
Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE 2006), 2006

Distributed versus face-to-face meetings for architecture evalution: a controlled experiment.
Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE 2006), 2006

Lessons learnt from the analysis of large-scale corporate databases.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006), 2006

Towards a distributed software architecture evaluation process: a preliminary assessment.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006), 2006

A Systematic review of Cross- vs. Within-Company Cost Estimation Studies.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2006

Assessing the Value of Architectural Information Extracted from Patterns for Architecting.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2006

Teaching Empirical Methods to Undergraduate Students <i>Working Group Results</i>.
Proceedings of the Empirical Software Engineering Issues. Critical Assessment and Future Directions, 2006

Synthesising Research Results.
Proceedings of the Empirical Software Engineering Issues. Critical Assessment and Future Directions, 2006

Empirical Paradigm - The Role of Experiments.
Proceedings of the Empirical Software Engineering Issues. Critical Assessment and Future Directions, 2006

The Empirical Paradigm <i>Discussion and Summary</i>.
Proceedings of the Empirical Software Engineering Issues. Critical Assessment and Future Directions, 2006

Qualitative Simulation Model for Software Engineering Process.
Proceedings of the 17th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2006), 2006

The Value of Architecturally Significant Information Extracted from Patterns for Architecture Evaluation: A Controlled Experiment.
Proceedings of the 17th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2006), 2006

Web Productivity Measurement and Benchmarking.
Proceedings of the Web Engineering, 2006

2005
Evidence-Based Software Engineering for Practitioners.
IEEE Softw., 2005

Realising evidence-based software engineering.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2005

Realising evidence-based software engineering a report from the workshop held at ICSE 2005.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2005

Erratum to "An empirical study of maintenance and development estimation accuracy" [The Journal of Systems and Software 64 (2002) 57-77].
J. Syst. Softw., 2005

An investigation of software engineering curricula.
J. Syst. Softw., 2005

A framework for evaluating a software bidding model.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2005

Experiences of using an evaluation framework.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2005

An Empirical Analysis of Software Productivity over Time.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Software Metrics (METRICS 2005), 2005

Teaching Evidence-Based Software Engineering to University Students.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Software Metrics (METRICS 2005), 2005

The use and usefulness of the ISO/IEC 9126 quality standard.
Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE 2005), 2005

International workshop on realising evidence-based software engineering.
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), 2005

2004
Software Productivity Measurement Using Multiple Size Measures.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2004

Further Comparison of Cross-Company and Within-Company Effort Estimation Models for Web Applications.
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2004), 2004

Evidence-Based Software Engineering.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004), 2004

The Challenge of Introducing a New Software Cost Estimation Technology into a Small Software Organisation.
Proceedings of the 15th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2004), 2004

An Exploratory Study of Groupware Support for Distributed Software Architecture Evaluation Process.
Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2004), 30 November, 2004

2003
Modeling Software Bidding Risks.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2003

A Simulation Study of the Model Evaluation Criterion MMRE.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2003

Measurement Modeling Technology.
IEEE Softw., 2003

Principles of survey research part 6: data analysis.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2003

A Further Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between MRE and Project Size.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2003

The Case Against Cross-Over Designs in Software Engineering.
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP 2003), 2003

2002
Preliminary Guidelines for Empirical Research in Software Engineering.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2002

Principles of survey research: part 5: populations and samples.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2002

Principles of survey research part 4: questionnaire evaluation.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2002

Principles of survey research: part 3: constructing a survey instrument.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2002

Principles of survey research part 2: designing a survey.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2002

An empirical study of maintenance and development estimation accuracy.
J. Syst. Softw., 2002

The question of scale economies in software - why cannot researchers agree?
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2002

An Empirical Validation of the Relationship Between the Magnitude of Relative Error and Project Size.
Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2002), 2002

2001
Modeling Software Measurement Data.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2001

Using Card Sorts to Elicit Web Page Quality Attributes.
IEEE Softw., 2001

Principles of survey research: part 1: turning lemons into lemonade.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2001

An investigation of coupling, reuse and maintenance in a commercial C++ application.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2001

Using simulated data sets to compare data analysis techniques used for software cost modelling.
IEE Proc. Softw., 2001

What accuracy statistics really measure.
IEE Proc. Softw., 2001

2000
Coupling measures and change ripples in C++ application software.
J. Syst. Softw., 2000

An evaluation of the business object approach to software development.
J. Syst. Softw., 2000

1999
Comments on: Evaluating Alternative Software Production Functions.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 1999

A Method for Software Quality Planning, Control, and Evaluation.
IEEE Softw., 1999

Towards an ontology of software maintenance.
J. Softw. Maintenance Res. Pract., 1999

An Investigation of Analysis Techniques for Software Datasets.
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 1999), 1999

1998
A Procedure for Analyzing Unbalanced Datasets.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 1998

Validation, Verification, and Testing: Diversity Rules.
IEEE Softw., 1998

Evaluating software engineering methods and tools, part 11: analysing quantitative case studies.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1998

Evaluating software eng. methods and tools part 10: designing and running a quantitative case study.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1998

Evaluating software engineering methods and tools: part 9: quantitative case study methodology.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1998

Evaluating software engineering methods and tools part 12: evaluating DESMET.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1998

Combining empirical results in software engineering.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 1998

1997
Reply to: Comments on "Toward a Framework for Software Measurement Validation".
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 1997

The SQUID approach to defining a quality model.
Softw. Qual. J., 1997

Status Report on Software Measurement.
IEEE Softw., 1997

Estimates, Uncertainty, and Risk.
IEEE Softw., 1997

Counterpoint: The Problem with Function Points.
IEEE Softw., 1997

Evaluating SW Eng. methods and tools, part 8: analysing a feature analysis evaluation.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1997

Evaluating software engineering methods and tools part 6: identifying and scoring features.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1997

Evaluating software engineering methods and tool part 5: the influence of human factors.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1997

Evaluating software engineering methods and tools, part 7: planning feature analysis evaluation.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1997

Experiences introducing a measurement program.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 1997

Evaluation and assessment in software engineering.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 1997

The danger of using axioms in software metrics.
IEE Proc. Softw. Eng., 1997

1996
Software Quality: The Elusive Target.
IEEE Softw., 1996

Evaluating software engineering methods and tool - part 4: the influence of human factors.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1996

Evaluating software engineering methods and tool part 1: The evaluation context and evaluation methods.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1996

Evaluating software engineering methods and tool - part 3: selecting an appropriate evaluation method - practical issues.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1996

Evaluating software engineering methods and tool - part 2: selecting an appropriate evaluation method - technical criteria.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 1996

Effort Estimation Using Analogy.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering, 1996

1995
Towards a Framework for Software Measurement Validation.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 1995

Case Studies for Method and Tool Evaluation.
IEEE Softw., 1995

1994
Critical review of quantitative assessment.
Softw. Eng. J., 1994

1993
Letter to the editor.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 1993

Inter-item correlations among function points.
Proceedings of the First International Software Metrics Symposium, 1993

1992
Empirical studies of assumptions that underlie software cost-estimation models.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 1992

Session 3 Summary: Procedures and Mechanisms for Measurement or Experimentation.
Proceedings of the Experimental Software Engineering Issues: Critical Assessment and Future Directions, 1992

A Methodology for Evaluating Software Engineering Methods and Tools.
Proceedings of the Experimental Software Engineering Issues: Critical Assessment and Future Directions, 1992

1991
Validating Software Measures.
Softw. Test. Verification Reliab., 1991

Never Mind the Metrics What About the Numbers.
Proceedings of the Formal Aspects of Measurement, 1991

1990
An evaluation of some design metrics.
Softw. Eng. J., 1990

1989
Software quality assurance.
Microprocess. Microsystems, 1989

A quantitative approach to monitoring software development.
Softw. Eng. J., 1989

Software Engineering: A Technological or Psychological Problem?
Proceedings of the 1st Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, 1989

1988
An evaluation of software structure metrics.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1988

1987
Towards a constructive quality model. Part 2: Statistical techniques for modelling software quality in the ESPRIT REQUEST project.
Softw. Eng. J., 1987

Towards a constructive quality model. Part 1: Software quality modelling, measurement and prediction.
Softw. Eng. J., 1987

The architecture of system quality.
Softw. Eng. J., 1987

1986
Microprocessor software project management: Eli Fathi and Cedric Armstrong Marcel Dekker, New York, USA (1985) $69.00 pp 368.
Microprocess. Microsystems, 1986

Software metrics and integrated project support environments.
Softw. Eng. J., 1986

Editorial: controlling software projects.
Softw. Eng. J., 1986

1985
Software project development cost estimation.
J. Syst. Softw., 1985

A Comparison of Cost Estimation Tools (Panel).
Proceedings of the Proceedings, 1985


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