Austen Rainer

83 papers A 12B 2C 4Journal 43Unranked 20
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 C conf
Explainable Software Engineering: From State of the Practice to State of the Art.
APSEC
Zheng Li, Maria Angela Ferrario, Ben Crossey, Austen Rainer
2025 J jnl
Tracking research software outputs in the UK.
CoRR
Domhnall Carlin, Austen Rainer
2025 J jnl
X-HAZOP: A Family of Techniques for Ethical Hazard Analysis of Assistive Robots.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.
Catherine Menon, Austen Rainer, Patrick Holthaus, Sílvia Moros, Gabriella Lakatos
2024 J jnl
A Unified Approach to the Development of Technology-Based Software Quality Models on the Example of Blockchain Systems.
IEEE Access
Oleksandr Gordieiev, Austen Rainer, Vyacheslav Kharchenko, Olga Pishchukhina, Daria Gordieieva
2024 J jnl
Delivering computing module for the large part-time software development class from pre- to post-pandemic: An online learning experience.
J. Syst. Softw.
Olga Pishchukhina, Daria Gordieieva, Austen Rainer
2024 J jnl
EHAZOP: A Proof of Concept Ethical Hazard Analysis of an Assistive Robot.
CoRR
Catherine Menon, Austen Rainer, Patrick Holthaus, Gabriella Lakatos, Silvio Carta
2024 J jnl
Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies - An evidential problem.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin
2023 J jnl
Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin
2023 C conf
Exploiting Paired Concepts to Facilitate Software Engineering Education.
APSEC
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
2023 — conf
Relationship between factors influencing the software development process and software defects.
DESSERT
Oleksandr Gordieiev, Daria Gordieieva, Austen Rainer, Olga Pishchukhina
2023 J jnl
Reproducible Searches in Systematic Reviews: An Evaluation and Guidelines.
IEEE Access
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
2023 — conf
Software Quality Assessment: Defect Life Cycle, Software Defect Profile, Its Types and Misalignments.
SWQD
Oleksandr Gordieiev, Daria Gordieieva, Austen Rainer
2023 — conf
The Most Agile Teams Are the Most Disciplined: On Scaling out Agile Development.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
2023 J jnl
Where is all the research software? An analysis of software in UK academic repositories.
PeerJ Comput. Sci.
Domhnall Carlin, Austen Rainer, David Wilson
2022 J jnl
Academic Search Engines: Constraints, Bugs, and Recommendation.
CoRR
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
2022 — conf
Academic search engines: constraints, bugs, and recommendations.
A-TEST@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
2022 J jnl
Introduction to the Special Issue on: Grey Literature and Multivocal Literature Reviews (MLRs) in software engineering.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer, Michael Felderer, Mika V. Mäntylä
2022 J jnl
Is it a case study? - A critical analysis and guidance.
J. Syst. Softw.
Claes Wohlin, Austen Rainer
2022 B conf
Managing the Root Causes of "Internal API Hell": An Experience Report.
PROFES
Guillermo Cabrera-Vives, Zheng Li, Austen Rainer, Dionysis Athanasopoulos, Diego Rodríguez-Mancini, Francisco Förster
2022 C conf
On Kubernetes-aided Federated Database Systems.
CloudCom
Zheng Li, Nicolás Saldías-Vallejos, María Andrea Rodríguez, Austen Rainer
2022 J jnl
On Kubernetes-aided Federated Database Systems.
CoRR
Zheng Li, Nicolás Saldías-Vallejos, María Andrea Rodríguez, Austen Rainer
2022 J jnl
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin
2022 — conf
Story-thinking, computational-thinking, programming and software engineering.
PPIG
Austen Rainer, Catherine Menon
2022 J jnl
Story-thinking, computational-thinking, programming and software engineering.
CoRR
Austen Rainer, Catherine Menon
2022 — conf
Voting Item: Story-work in human-centric software engineering.
CHASE@ICSE
Austen Rainer, Catherine Menon
2021 J jnl
Challenges and recommendations to publishing and using credible evidence in software engineering.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Claes Wohlin, Austen Rainer
2021 J jnl
Gray Literature Versus Academic Literature in Software Engineering: A Call for Epistemological Analysis.
IEEE Softw.
Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer
2021 J jnl
Practitioner-generated blog posts as evidence for software engineering research: attitudinal survey and preliminary checklist.
CoRR
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams
2021 J jnl
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research.
CoRR
Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin
2021 A conf
Storytelling in human-centric software engineering research.
EASE
Austen Rainer
2021 J jnl
Storytelling in human-centric software engineering research.
CoRR
Austen Rainer
2021 A conf
Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles.
EASE
Ashley Williams, Matthew Shardlow, Austen Rainer
2021 J jnl
Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles.
CoRR
Ashley Williams, Matthew Shardlow, Austen Rainer
2020 J jnl
Anaya's Journey: A Vision for a Future Software Academy.
IEEE Softw.
Austen Rainer
2020 — ch.
Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research.
Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering
Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, Mika V. Mäntylä, Austen Rainer
2020 J jnl
Retrieving and mining professional experience of software practice from grey literature: an exploratory review.
CoRR
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams, Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer
2020 J jnl
Retrieving and mining professional experience of software practice from grey literature: an exploratory review.
IET Softw.
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams, Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer
2020 J jnl
Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping.
CoRR
Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer, Per Lauvås Jr., Andrea Arcuri
2020 J jnl
Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping.
J. Syst. Softw.
Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer, Per Lauvås Jr., Andrea Arcuri
2019 J jnl
Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research.
CoRR
Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, Mika V. Mäntylä, Austen Rainer
2019 A conf
Do software engineering practitioners cite software testing research in their online articles?: A larger scale replication.
EASE
Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer
2019 J jnl
Heuristics for improving the rigour and relevance of grey literature searches for software engineering research.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams
2019 A conf
How do empirical software engineering researchers assess the credibility of practitioner-generated blog posts?
EASE
Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer
2019 A conf
Mobile Apps with Dynamic Bindings Between the Fog and the Cloud.
ICSOC
Dionysis Athanasopoulos, Mitchell McEwen, Austen Rainer
2019 J jnl
Using blog-like documents to investigate software practice: Benefits, challenges, and research directions.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams
2018 A ed.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE2018, Christchurch, New Zealand, June 28-29, 2018
EASE
Austen Rainer, Stephen G. MacDonell, Jacky W. Keung
2018 — conf
Using Blog Articles in Software Engineering Research: Benefits, Challenges and Case-Survey Method.
ASWEC
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams
2017 A conf
Interactive Posters: An Alternative to Collect Practitioners' Experience.
EASE
Philipp Diebold, Matthias Galster, Austen Rainer, Sherlock A. Licorish
2017 A conf
Investigating developers' email discussions during decision-making in Python language evolution.
EASE
Pankajeshwara Sharma, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Nigel Stanger, Sherlock A. Licorish, Austen Rainer
2017 A conf
Toward the use of blog articles as a source of evidence for software engineering research.
EASE
Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer
2017 J jnl
Using argumentation theory to analyse software practitioners' defeasible evidence, inference and belief.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Austen Rainer
2016 C conf
Identifying Practitioners' Arguments and Evidence in Blogs: Insights from a Pilot Study.
APSEC
Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer
2013 B conf
Robot-Mediated Interviews: Do Robots Possess Advantages over Human Interviewers When Talking to Children with Special Needs?
ICSR
Luke Jai Wood, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Hagen Lehmann, Ben Robins, Austen Rainer, Dag Sverre Syrdal
2012 — book
Case Study Research in Software Engineering - Guidelines and Examples.
Per Runeson, Martin Höst, Austen Rainer, Björn Regnell
2011 J jnl
The longitudinal, chronological case study research strategy: A definition, and an example from IBM Hursley Park.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Austen Rainer
2010 J jnl
Representing the behaviour of software projects using multi-dimensional timelines.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Austen Rainer
2010 — conf
Selecting Features in Origin Analysis.
SGAI Conf.
Pam Green, Peter C. R. Lane, Austen Rainer, Sven-Bodo Scholz
2009 A conf
An assessment of published evaluations of requirements management tools.
EASE
Austen Rainer, Sarah Beecham, Cei Sanderson
2009 — conf
Building Classifiers to Identify Split Files.
MLDM Posters
Pam Green, Peter C. R. Lane, Austen Rainer, Sven-Bodo Scholz
2008 A conf
A follow-up empirical evaluation of evidence based software engineering by undergraduate students.
EASE
Austen Rainer, Sarah Beecham
2008 — conf
Using n-grams to rapidly characterise the evolution of software code.
ASE Workshops
Austen Rainer, Peter C. R. Lane, James A. Malcolm, Sven-Bodo Scholz
2007 — conf
Communication: the neglected technical skill?
CPR
Tracy Hall, David Wilson, Austen Rainer, Dorota Jagielska
2006 A conf
A Preliminary Empirical Investigation of the Use of Evidence Based Software Engineering by Under-graduate Students.
EASE
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall, Nathan Baddoo
2006 — conf
Teaching Empirical Methods to Undergraduate Students
Empirical Software Engineering Issues
Austen Rainer, Marcus Ciolkowski, Dietmar Pfahl, Barbara A. Kitchenham, Sandro Morasca, Matthias M. Müller, Guilherme Horta Travassos, Sira Vegas
2006 — conf
The Value of Empirical Evidence for Practitioners and Researchers.
Empirical Software Engineering Issues
Austen Rainer
2006 J jnl
Trust in software outsourcing relationships: An empirical investigation of Indian software companies.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Nilay V. Oza, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Susan Grey
2005 J jnl
Defining a Requirements Process Improvement Model.
Softw. Qual. J.
Sarah Beecham, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer
2005 — conf
Sampling Open Source Projects from Portals: Some Preliminary Investigations.
IEEE METRICS
Austen Rainer, Stephen Gale
2005 J jnl
Software engineering practice versus evidence-based software engineering research.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes
Austen Rainer, Dorota Jagielska, Tracy Hall
2005 — conf
Using Software Development Progress Data to Understand Threats to Project Outcomes.
IEEE METRICS
Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Dorota Jagielska
2005 J jnl
Using an expert panel to validate a requirements process improvement model.
J. Syst. Softw.
Sarah Beecham, Tracy Hall, Carol Britton, Michaela Cottee, Austen Rainer
2004 — conf
Critical factors in software outsourcing: a pilot study.
WISER
Nilay V. Oza, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Susan Grey
2004 — conf
Identifying the Causes of Poor Progress in Software Projects.
IEEE METRICS
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall
2003 J jnl
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of factors affecting software processes.
J. Syst. Softw.
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall
2003 — conf
Persuading Developers to 'Buy into' Software Process Improvement: Local Opinion and Empirical Evidence.
ISESE
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall, Nathan Baddoo
2003 J jnl
Software Process Improvement Problems in Twelve Software Companies: An Empirical Analysis.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Sarah Beecham, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer
2002 J jnl
Implementing software process improvement: an empirical study.
Softw. Process. Improv. Pract.
Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Nathan Baddoo
2002 J jnl
Key success factors for implementing software process improvement: a maturity-based analysis.
J. Syst. Softw.
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall
2002 J jnl
Requirements problems in twelve software companies: an empirical analysis.
IEE Proc. Softw.
Tracy Hall, Sarah Beecham, Austen Rainer
2001 — conf
An Empirical Study of Maintenance Issues within Process Improvement Programmes in the Software Industry.
ICSM
Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Nathan Baddoo, Sarah Beecham
2001 J jnl
An analysis of some core studies of software process improvement.
Softw. Process. Improv. Pract.
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall
2000 J jnl
An Empirical Investigation Of Software Project Schedule Behaviour.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Austen Rainer
1999 — conf
Re-Planning for a Successful Project Schedule.
IEEE METRICS
Austen Rainer, Martin J. Shepperd