Design Patterns in Software Maintenance: An Experiment Replication at Brigham Young University

Author

Krein, Jonathan L. ; Pratt, Landon J. ; Swenson, Alan B. ; MacLean, Alexander C. ; Knutson, Charles D. ; Eggett, Dennis L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

21-21 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

34

Abstract

In 2001 Prechelt et al. published the results of a controlled experiment in software maintenance comparing design patterns to simpler solutions. Since that time, only one replication of the experiment has been performed (published in 2004). The replication found remarkably (though not surprisingly) different results. In this paper we present the results of another replication of Prechelt´s experiment, conducted at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 2010. This replication was performed as part of a joint replication project hosted by the 2011 Workshop on Replication in Empirical Software Engineering Research (RESER). The data and results from this experiment are meant to be considered in connection with the results of other contributions to the joint replication project.

Keywords

educational institutions; software maintenance; Brigham Young university; Prechelt experiment; design patterns; experiment replication; joint replication project; replication in empirical software engineering research; software maintenance; Educational institutions; Joints; Programming; Software; Software engineering; Statistical analysis; design patterns; experiment; joint replication; software maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Replication in Empirical Software Engineering Research (RESER), 2011 Second International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Banff, AB

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0972-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RESER.2011.10

Filename

6148334