Austen Rainer

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1999-2024
Publications (10 Years): 46

Top Topics

Factors Influencing

Software Engineering

Top Venues

Inf. Softw. Technol.

J. Syst. Softw.

Publications

Olga Pishchukhina, Daria Gordieieva, Austen Rainer
Delivering computing module for the large part-time software development class from pre- to post-pandemic: An online learning experience. J. Syst. Softw. 210 (2024)
Catherine Menon, Austen Rainer, Patrick Holthaus, Gabriella Lakatos, Silvio Carta
EHAZOP: A Proof of Concept Ethical Hazard Analysis of an Assistive Robot. CoRR (2024)
Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin
Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies - An evidential problem. Inf. Softw. Technol. 174 (2024)
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
Reproducible Searches in Systematic Reviews: An Evaluation and Guidelines. IEEE Access 11 (2023)
Oleksandr Gordieiev, Daria Gordieieva, Austen Rainer
Software Quality Assessment: Defect Life Cycle, Software Defect Profile, Its Types and Misalignments. SWQD (2023)
Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin
Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers. Inf. Softw. Technol. 161 (2023)
Oleksandr Gordieiev, Daria Gordieieva, Austen Rainer, Olga Pishchukhina
Relationship between factors influencing the software development process and software defects. DESSERT (2023)
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
The Most Agile Teams Are the Most Disciplined: On Scaling out Agile Development. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE (2023)
Domhnall Carlin, Austen Rainer, David Wilson
Where is all the research software? An analysis of software in UK academic repositories. PeerJ Comput. Sci. 9 (2023)
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
Exploiting Paired Concepts to Facilitate Software Engineering Education. APSEC (2023)
Zheng Li, Nicolás Saldías-Vallejos, María Andrea Rodríguez, Austen Rainer
On Kubernetes-aided Federated Database Systems. CoRR (2022)
Austen Rainer, Catherine Menon
Voting Item: Story-work in human-centric software engineering. CHASE@ICSE (2022)
Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research. Inf. Softw. Technol. 151 (2022)
Austen Rainer, Catherine Menon
Story-thinking, computational-thinking, programming and software engineering. PPIG (2022)
Zheng Li, Nicolás Saldías-Vallejos, María Andrea Rodríguez, Austen Rainer
On Kubernetes-aided Federated Database Systems. CloudCom (2022)
Austen Rainer, Catherine Menon
Story-thinking, computational-thinking, programming and software engineering. CoRR (2022)
Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer, Michael Felderer, Mika V. Mäntylä
Introduction to the Special Issue on: Grey Literature and Multivocal Literature Reviews (MLRs) in software engineering. Inf. Softw. Technol. 141 (2022)
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
Academic Search Engines: Constraints, Bugs, and Recommendation. CoRR (2022)
Guillermo Cabrera-Vives, Zheng Li, Austen Rainer, Dionysis Athanasopoulos, Diego Rodríguez-Mancini, Francisco Förster
Managing the Root Causes of "Internal API Hell": An Experience Report. PROFES (2022)
Zheng Li, Austen Rainer
Academic search engines: constraints, bugs, and recommendations. A-TEST@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE (2022)
Claes Wohlin, Austen Rainer
Is it a case study? - A critical analysis and guidance. J. Syst. Softw. 192 (2022)
Austen Rainer
Storytelling in human-centric software engineering research. CoRR (2021)
Claes Wohlin, Austen Rainer
Challenges and recommendations to publishing and using credible evidence in software engineering. Inf. Softw. Technol. 134 (2021)
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams
Practitioner-generated blog posts as evidence for software engineering research: attitudinal survey and preliminary checklist. CoRR (2021)
Austen Rainer
Storytelling in human-centric software engineering research. EASE (2021)
Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research. CoRR (2021)
Ashley Williams, Matthew Shardlow, Austen Rainer
Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles. CoRR (2021)
Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer
Gray Literature Versus Academic Literature in Software Engineering: A Call for Epistemological Analysis. IEEE Softw. 38 (5) (2021)
Ashley Williams, Matthew Shardlow, Austen Rainer
Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles. EASE (2021)
Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer, Per Lauvås Jr., Andrea Arcuri
Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping. J. Syst. Softw. 165 (2020)
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams, Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer
Retrieving and mining professional experience of software practice from grey literature: an exploratory review. IET Softw. 14 (6) (2020)
Austen Rainer
Anaya's Journey: A Vision for a Future Software Academy. IEEE Softw. 37 (2) (2020)
Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer, Per Lauvås Jr., Andrea Arcuri
Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping. CoRR (2020)
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams, Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer
Retrieving and mining professional experience of software practice from grey literature: an exploratory review. CoRR (2020)
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams
Heuristics for improving the rigour and relevance of grey literature searches for software engineering research. Inf. Softw. Technol. 106 (2019)
Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, Mika V. Mäntylä, Austen Rainer
Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research. CoRR (2019)
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams
Using blog-like documents to investigate software practice: Benefits, challenges, and research directions. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 31 (11) (2019)
Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer
How do empirical software engineering researchers assess the credibility of practitioner-generated blog posts? EASE (2019)
Dionysis Athanasopoulos, Mitchell McEwen, Austen Rainer
Mobile Apps with Dynamic Bindings Between the Fog and the Cloud. ICSOC (2019)
Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer
Do software engineering practitioners cite software testing research in their online articles?: A larger scale replication. EASE (2019)
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams
Using Blog Articles in Software Engineering Research: Benefits, Challenges and Case-Survey Method. ASWEC (2018)
Philipp Diebold, Matthias Galster, Austen Rainer, Sherlock A. Licorish
Interactive Posters: An Alternative to Collect Practitioners' Experience. EASE (2017)
Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer
Toward the use of blog articles as a source of evidence for software engineering research. EASE (2017)
Pankajeshwara Sharma, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Nigel Stanger, Sherlock A. Licorish, Austen Rainer
Investigating developers' email discussions during decision-making in Python language evolution. EASE (2017)
Austen Rainer
Using argumentation theory to analyse software practitioners' defeasible evidence, inference and belief. Inf. Softw. Technol. 87 (2017)
Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer
Identifying Practitioners' Arguments and Evidence in Blogs: Insights from a Pilot Study. APSEC (2016)
Luke Jai Wood, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Hagen Lehmann, Ben Robins, Austen Rainer, Dag Sverre Syrdal
Robot-Mediated Interviews: Do Robots Possess Advantages over Human Interviewers When Talking to Children with Special Needs? ICSR (2013)
Austen Rainer
The longitudinal, chronological case study research strategy: A definition, and an example from IBM Hursley Park. Inf. Softw. Technol. 53 (7) (2011)
Austen Rainer
Representing the behaviour of software projects using multi-dimensional timelines. Inf. Softw. Technol. 52 (11) (2010)
Pam Green, Peter C. R. Lane, Austen Rainer, Sven-Bodo Scholz
Selecting Features in Origin Analysis. SGAI Conf. (2010)
Austen Rainer, Sarah Beecham, Cei Sanderson
An assessment of published evaluations of requirements management tools. EASE (2009)
Pam Green, Peter C. R. Lane, Austen Rainer, Sven-Bodo Scholz
Building Classifiers to Identify Split Files. MLDM Posters (2009)
Austen Rainer, Sarah Beecham
A follow-up empirical evaluation of evidence based software engineering by undergraduate students. EASE (2008)
Austen Rainer, Peter C. R. Lane, James A. Malcolm, Sven-Bodo Scholz
Using n-grams to rapidly characterise the evolution of software code. ASE Workshops (2008)
Tracy Hall, David Wilson, Austen Rainer, Dorota Jagielska
Communication: the neglected technical skill? CPR (2007)
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall, Nathan Baddoo
A Preliminary Empirical Investigation of the Use of Evidence Based Software Engineering by Under-graduate Students. EASE (2006)
Austen Rainer
The Value of Empirical Evidence for Practitioners and Researchers. Empirical Software Engineering Issues (2006)
Austen Rainer, Marcus Ciolkowski, Dietmar Pfahl, Barbara A. Kitchenham, Sandro Morasca, Matthias M. Müller, Guilherme Horta Travassos, Sira Vegas
. Empirical Software Engineering Issues (2006)
Nilay V. Oza, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Susan Grey
Trust in software outsourcing relationships: An empirical investigation of Indian software companies. Inf. Softw. Technol. 48 (5) (2006)
Austen Rainer, Dorota Jagielska, Tracy Hall
Software engineering practice versus evidence-based software engineering research. ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes 30 (4) (2005)
Austen Rainer, Stephen Gale
Sampling Open Source Projects from Portals: Some Preliminary Investigations. IEEE METRICS (2005)
Sarah Beecham, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer
Defining a Requirements Process Improvement Model. Softw. Qual. J. 13 (3) (2005)
Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Dorota Jagielska
Using Software Development Progress Data to Understand Threats to Project Outcomes. IEEE METRICS (2005)
Sarah Beecham, Tracy Hall, Carol Britton, Michaela Cottee, Austen Rainer
Using an expert panel to validate a requirements process improvement model. J. Syst. Softw. 76 (3) (2005)
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall
Identifying the Causes of Poor Progress in Software Projects. IEEE METRICS (2004)
Nilay V. Oza, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Susan Grey
Critical factors in software outsourcing: a pilot study. WISER (2004)
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of factors affecting software processes. J. Syst. Softw. 66 (1) (2003)
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall, Nathan Baddoo
Persuading Developers to 'Buy into' Software Process Improvement: Local Opinion and Empirical Evidence. ISESE (2003)
Sarah Beecham, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer
Software Process Improvement Problems in Twelve Software Companies: An Empirical Analysis. Empir. Softw. Eng. 8 (1) (2003)
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall
Key success factors for implementing software process improvement: a maturity-based analysis. J. Syst. Softw. 62 (2) (2002)
Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Nathan Baddoo
Implementing software process improvement: an empirical study. Softw. Process. Improv. Pract. 7 (1) (2002)
Tracy Hall, Sarah Beecham, Austen Rainer
Requirements problems in twelve software companies: an empirical analysis. IEE Proc. Softw. 149 (5) (2002)
Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall
An analysis of some core studies of software process improvement. Softw. Process. Improv. Pract. 6 (4) (2001)
Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Nathan Baddoo, Sarah Beecham
An Empirical Study of Maintenance Issues within Process Improvement Programmes in the Software Industry. ICSM (2001)
Austen Rainer
An Empirical Investigation Of Software Project Schedule Behaviour. Empir. Softw. Eng. 5 (1) (2000)
Austen Rainer, Martin J. Shepperd
Re-Planning for a Successful Project Schedule. IEEE METRICS (1999)