Stephen G. MacDonell

ORCID

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1991-2024
Publications (10 Years): 155

Top Venues

University of Cambridge, UK (PHD)

Education History

University of Cambridge, UK

PHD

Publications

Osayande P. Omondiagbe, Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Improving transfer learning for software cross-project defect prediction. Appl. Intell. 54 (7) (2024)
Chathrie Wimalasooriya, Sherlock A. Licorish, Daniel Alencar da Costa, Stephen G. MacDonell
Just-in-Time crash prediction for mobile apps. Empir. Softw. Eng. 29 (3) (2024)
Ifeanyi G. Ndukwe, Sherlock A. Licorish, Amjed Tahir, Stephen G. MacDonell
How have views on Software Quality differed over time? Research and practice viewpoints. J. Syst. Softw. 195 (2023)
Ifeanyi G. Ndukwe, Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Perceptions on the Utility of Community Question and Answer Websites Like Stack Overflow to Software Developers. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 49 (4) (2023)
Osayande P. Omondiagbe, Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Evaluating Simple and Complex Models' Performance When Predicting Accepted Answers on Stack Overflow. SEAA (2022)
Osayande P. Omondiagbe, Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Negative Transfer in Cross Project Defect Prediction: Effect of Domain Divergence. SEAA (2022)
Chathrie Wimalasooriya, Sherlock A. Licorish, Daniel Alencar da Costa, Stephen G. MacDonell
A systematic mapping study addressing the reliability of mobile applications: The need to move beyond testing reliability. J. Syst. Softw. 186 (2022)
Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Amjed Tahir, Stephen G. MacDonell, Jürgen Börstler
An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Data Resampling Approaches for Cross-Project Software Defect Prediction. CoRR (2022)
Chathrie Wimalasooriya, Sherlock A. Licorish, Daniel Alencar da Costa, Stephen G. MacDonell
A Systematic Mapping Study Addressing the Reliability of Mobile Applications: The Need to Move Beyond Testing Reliability. CoRR (2022)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Christoph Treude, John C. Grundy, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Kelly Blincoe, Stephen G. MacDonell, Li Li, Jean-Guy Schneider
Software Engineering in Australasia. CoRR (2022)
Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Amjed Tahir, Stephen G. MacDonell, Jürgen Börstler
An empirical study on the effectiveness of data resampling approaches for cross-project software defect prediction. IET Softw. 16 (2) (2022)
Stephen G. MacDonell
Quality Assurance in the Context of Contemporary Software Practice. CoRR (2022)
Marco Kuhrmann, Paolo Tell, Regina Hebig, Jil Klünder, Jürgen Münch, Oliver Linssen, Dietmar Pfahl, Michael Felderer, Christian R. Prause, Stephen G. MacDonell, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, David Raffo, Sarah Beecham, Eray Tüzün, Gustavo López, Nicolás Paez, Diego Fontdevila, Sherlock A. Licorish, Steffen Küpper, Günther Ruhe, Eric Knauss, Özden Özcan-Top, Paul M. Clarke, Fergal McCaffery, Marcela Genero, Aurora Vizcaíno, Mario Piattini, Marcos Kalinowski, Tayana Conte, Rafael Prikladnicki, Stephan Krusche, Ahmet Coskunçay, Ezequiel Scott, Fabio Calefato, Svetlana Pimonova, Rolf-Helge Pfeiffer, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Rogardt Heldal, Masud Fazal-Baqaie, Craig Anslow, Maleknaz Nayebi, Kurt Schneider, Stefan Sauer, Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl, Maria Cecilia Bastarrica, Ita Richardson
What Makes Agile Software Development Agile? IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 48 (9) (2022)
Osayande P. Omondiagbe, Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Preventing Negative Transfer on Sentiment Analysis in Deep Transfer Learning. DL4SR@CIKM (2022)
Thomas Laurenson, Stephen G. MacDonell, Hank Wolfe
Towards a standardised strategy to collect and distribute application software artifacts. CoRR (2021)
Jim Buchan, Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi, Stephen G. MacDonell, Amrita Shinde
Alignment of Stakeholder Expectations about User Involvement in Agile Software Development. CoRR (2021)
Jil Klünder, Regina Hebig, Paolo Tell, Marco Kuhrmann, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Rogardt Heldal, Stephan Krusche, Masud Fazal-Baqaie, Michael Felderer, Marcela Fabiana Genero Bocco, Steffen Küpper, Sherlock A. Licorish, Gustavo López, Fergal McCaffery, Özden Özcan Top, Christian R. Prause, Rafael Prikladnicki, Eray Tüzün, Dietmar Pfahl, Kurt Schneider, Stephen G. MacDonell
Catching up with Method and Process Practice: An Industry-Informed Baseline for Researchers. CoRR (2021)
Petteri Kaskenpalo, Stephen G. MacDonell
Valuing Evaluation: Methodologies to Bridge Research and Practice. CoRR (2021)
Johannes Holvitie, Sherlock A. Licorish, Rodrigo O. Spínola, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Stephen G. MacDonell, Thiago Souto Mendes, Jim Buchan, Ville Leppänen
Technical debt and agile software development practices and processes: An industry practitioner survey. CoRR (2021)
Marco Kuhrmann, Paolo Tell, Regina Hebig, Jil Klünder, Jürgen Münch, Oliver Linssen, Dietmar Pfahl, Michael Felderer, Christian R. Prause, Stephen G. MacDonell, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, David Raffo, Sarah Beecham, Eray Tüzün, Gustavo López, Nicolás Paez, Diego Fontdevila, Sherlock A. Licorish, Steffen Küpper, Günther Ruhe, Eric Knauss, Özden Özcan-Top, Paul M. Clarke, Fergal McCaffery, Marcela Genero, Aurora Vizcaíno, Mario Piattini, Marcos Kalinowski, Tayana Conte, Rafael Prikladnicki, Stephan Krusche, Ahmet Coskunçay, Ezequiel Scott, Fabio Calefato, Svetlana Pimonova, Rolf-Helge Pfeiffer, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Rogardt Heldal, Masud Fazal-Baqaie, Craig Anslow, Maleknaz Nayebi, Kurt Schneider, Stefan Sauer, Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl, Maria Cecilia Bastarrica, Ita Richardson
What Makes Agile Software Development Agile? CoRR (2021)
Amjed Tahir, Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Xun Xiao, Stephen G. MacDonell
Does class size matter? An in-depth assessment of the effect of class size in software defect prediction. Empir. Softw. Eng. 26 (5) (2021)
Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Thomas Shippey, David Bowes, Amjed Tahir, Stephen G. MacDonell
Assert Use and Defectiveness in Industrial Code. CoRR (2021)
Osayande P. Omondiagbe, Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Features that Predict the Acceptability of Java and JavaScript Answers on Stack Overflow. CoRR (2021)
Diana Kirk, Stephen G. MacDonell
Evolving a Model for Software Process Context: An Exploratory Study. CoRR (2021)
Laurie McLeod, Stephen G. MacDonell
Factors that Affect Software Systems Development Project Outcomes: A Survey of Research. CoRR (2021)
Peter A. Whigham, Caitlin A. Owen, Stephen G. MacDonell
A Baseline Model for Software Effort Estimation. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Adopting Softer Approaches in the Study of Repository Data: A Comparative Analysis. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
What can developers' messages tell us? A psycholinguistic analysis of Jazz teams' attitudes and behavior patterns. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Communication and Personality Profiles of Global Software Developers. CoRR (2021)
Htike Htike Wut Yi, Stephen G. MacDonell
Towards an Understanding of Why and How ICT Projects Are Initiated: Analysis via Repertory Grid. CoRR (2021)
Barry Dowdeswell, Roopak Sinha, Dennis Jarvis, Jacqueline Jarvis, Stephen G. MacDonell
Employing Agent Beliefs during Fault Diagnosis for IEC 61499 Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
The True Role of Active Communicators: An Empirical Study of Jazz Core Developers. CoRR (2021)
Awais Tanveer, Roopak Sinha, Stephen G. MacDonell, Paulo Leitão, Valeriy Vyatkin
Designing Actively Secure, Highly Available Industrial Automation Applications. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Chan Won Lee, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Priyanka Patel, Stephen G. MacDonell
They'll Know It When They See It: Analyzing Post-Release Feedback from the Android Community. CoRR (2021)
Paolo Tell, Jil Klünder, Steffen Küpper, David Raffo, Stephen G. MacDonell, Jürgen Münch, Dietmar Pfahl, Oliver Linssen, Marco Kuhrmann
Towards the statistical construction of hybrid development methods. CoRR (2021)
Jim Buchan, Ling Li, Stephen G. MacDonell
Causal Factors, Benefits and Challenges of Test-Driven Development: Practitioner Perceptions. CoRR (2021)
Amjed Tahir, Stephen G. MacDonell
Combining Dynamic Analysis and Visualization to Explore the Distribution of Unit Test Suites. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Self-organising Roles in Agile Globally Distributed Teams. CoRR (2021)
Jil Klünder, Dzejlana Karajic, Paolo Tell, Oliver Karras, Christian Münkel, Jürgen Münch, Stephen G. MacDonell, Regina Hebig, Marco Kuhrmann
Determining Context Factors for Hybrid Development Methods with Trained Models. Software Engineering (2021)
Chan Won Lee, Sherlock A. Licorish, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Stephen G. MacDonell
Augmenting Text Mining Approaches with Social Network Analysis to Understand the Complex Relationships among Users' Requests: a Case Study of the Android Operating System. CoRR (2021)
Waqar Hussain, Tony Clear, Stephen G. MacDonell
Emerging Trends for Global DevOps: A New Zealand Perspective. CoRR (2021)
Laurie McLeod, Bill Doolin, Stephen G. MacDonell
A Perspective-Based Understanding of Project Success. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Understanding the attitudes, knowledge sharing behaviors and task performance of core developers: A longitudinal study. CoRR (2021)
Marco Kuhrmann, Philipp Diebold, Stephen G. MacDonell, Jürgen Münch
2nd Workshop on Hybrid Development Approaches in Software Systems Development. CoRR (2021)
Diana Kirk, Stephen G. MacDonell
Progress Report on a Proposed Theory for Software Development. CoRR (2021)
Michael Franklin Bosu, Stephen G. MacDonell, Peter A. Whigham
Analyzing the Stationarity Process in Software Effort Estimation Datasets. CoRR (2021)
Paolo Tell, Stephen G. MacDonell, Sherlock A. Licorish
3rd Workshop on Hybrid Development Approaches in Software System Development. CoRR (2021)
Awais Tanveer, Roopak Sinha, Stephen G. MacDonell
On Design-time Security in IEC 61499 Systems: Conceptualisation, Implementation, and Feasibility. CoRR (2021)
Amjed Tahir, Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Feature Evolution and Reuse - An Exploratory Study of Eclipse. CoRR (2021)
Issam Jebreen, Robert Wellington, Stephen G. MacDonell
Packaged Software Implementation Requirements Engineering by Small Software Enterprises. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell, Tony Clear
Analyzing Confidentiality and Privacy Concerns: Insights from Android Issue Logs. CoRR (2021)
Katia Romero Felizardo, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, Stephen G. MacDonell, José Carlos Maldonado
A Visual Analysis Approach to Update Systematic Reviews. CoRR (2021)
Waqar Hussain, Didar Zowghi, Tony Clear, Stephen G. MacDonell, Kelly Blincoe
Managing Requirements Change the Informal Way: When Saying 'No' is Not an Option. CoRR (2021)
Frédéric Schmidt, Stephen G. MacDonell, Andy M. Connor
Multi-Objective Reconstruction Of Software Architecture. CoRR (2021)
Diana Kirk, Stephen G. MacDonell
Investigating a Conceptual Construct for Software Context. CoRR (2021)
Marco Kuhrmann, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Rolf-Helge Pfeiffer, Paolo Tell, Jil Klünder, Tayana Conte, Stephen G. MacDonell, Regina Hebig
Walking Through the Method Zoo: Does Higher Education really meet Software Industry Demands? CoRR (2021)
Mujtaba Alshakhouri, Jim Buchan, Stephen G. MacDonell
Synchronised Visualisation of Software Process and Product Artefacts: Concept, Design and Prototype Implementation. CoRR (2021)
Laurie McLeod, Stephen G. MacDonell, Bill Doolin
Qualitative Research on Software Development: A Longitudinal Case Study Methodology. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Amjed Tahir, Michael Franklin Bosu, Stephen G. MacDonell
On Satisfying the Android OS Community: User Feedback Still Central to Developers' Portfolios. CoRR (2021)
Michael Franklin Bosu, Stephen G. MacDonell
Data Quality in Empirical Software Engineering: A Targeted Review. CoRR (2021)
Vinod Menon, Roopak Sinha, Stephen G. MacDonell
Architectural Challenges in Migrating Plan-driven Projects to Agile. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Exploring software developers' work practices: Task differences, participation, engagement, and speed of task resolution. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Personality Profiles of Global Software Developers. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Exploring the links between software development task type, team attitudes and task completion performance: Insights from the Jazz repository. CoRR (2021)
Paolo Tell, Jil Klünder, Steffen Küpper, David Raffo, Stephen G. MacDonell, Jürgen Münch, Dietmar Pfahl, Oliver Linssen, Marco Kuhrmann
Towards the statistical construction of hybrid development methods. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 33 (1) (2021)
Katia Romero Felizardo, Mehwish Riaz, Muhammad Sulayman, Emilia Mendes, Stephen G. MacDonell, José Carlos Maldonado
Analysing the use of graphs to represent the results of Systematic Reviews in Software Engineering. CoRR (2021)
Michael Franklin Bosu, Stephen G. MacDonell
A Taxonomy of Data Quality Challenges in Empirical Software Engineering. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Combining Text Mining and Visualization Techniques to Study Teams' Behavioral Processes. CoRR (2021)
Solomon Mensah, Jacky Keung, Stephen G. MacDonell, Michael Franklin Bosu, Kwabena Ebo Bennin
Investigating the Significance of the Bellwether Effect to Improve Software Effort Prediction: Further Empirical Study. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Relating IS Developers' Attitudes to Engagement. CoRR (2021)
Diana Kirk, Stephen G. MacDonell
Categorising Software Contexts: Research-in-Progress. CoRR (2021)
Nidhi Gowdra, Roopak Sinha, Stephen G. MacDonell, Wei Qi Yan
Mitigating severe over-parameterization in deep convolutional neural networks through forced feature abstraction and compression with an entropy-based heuristic. CoRR (2021)
Barry Dowdeswell, Roopak Sinha, Stephen G. MacDonell
Finding faults: A scoping study of fault diagnostics for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Christoph Treude, John C. Grundy, Kelly Blincoe, Stephen G. MacDonell, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Li Li, Jean-Guy Schneider
Software Engineering in Australasia. ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes 46 (2) (2021)
Martin J. Shepperd, Stephen G. MacDonell
Evaluating prediction systems in software project estimation. CoRR (2021)
Krassie Petrova, Stephen G. MacDonell, Dave Parry
Mobile Data Service Adoption and Use from a Service Supply Perspective: An Empirical Investigation. CoRR (2021)
Amjed Tahir, Steve Counsell, Stephen G. MacDonell
An empirical study into the relationship between class features and test smells. CoRR (2021)
Bilal Raza, Tony Clear, Stephen G. MacDonell
Onshore to Near-Shore Outsourcing Transitions: Unpacking Tensions. CoRR (2021)
Stephen G. MacDonell
The Impact of Sampling and Rule Set Size on Generated Fuzzy Inference System Predictive Accuracy: Analysis of a Software Engineering Data Set. CoRR (2021)
Tony Clear, Bilal Raza, Stephen G. MacDonell
A Critical Evaluation of Failure in a Nearshore Outsourcing Project: What dilemma analysis can tell us. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
How do Globally Distributed Agile Teams Self-organise? Initial Insights from a Case Study. CoRR (2021)
Nidhi Gowdra, Roopak Sinha, Stephen G. MacDonell
Examining and Mitigating Kernel Saturation in Convolutional Neural Networks using Negative Images. CoRR (2021)
Amjed Tahir, Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Xun Xiao, Stephen G. MacDonell
Does class size matter? An in-depth assessment of the effect of class size in software defect prediction. CoRR (2021)
Nidhi Gowdra, Roopak Sinha, Stephen G. MacDonell, Wei Qi Yan
Mitigating severe over-parameterization in deep convolutional neural networks through forced feature abstraction and compression with an entropy-based heuristic. Pattern Recognit. 119 (2021)
Barry Dowdeswell, Roopak Sinha, Stephen G. MacDonell
Diagnosable-by-Design Model-Driven Development for IEC 61499 Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. CoRR (2021)
Amjed Tahir, Stephen G. MacDonell
A Systematic Mapping Study on Dynamic Metrics and Software Quality. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
Differences in Jazz Project Leaders' Competencies and Behaviors: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation. CoRR (2021)
Amjed Tahir, Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Stephen G. MacDonell, Stephen Marsland
Revisiting the size effect in software fault prediction models. CoRR (2021)
Tony Clear, Waqar Hussain, Stephen G. MacDonell
The Many Facets of Distance and Space: the Mobility of Actors in Globally Distributed Project Teams. CoRR (2021)
Tony Clear, Stephen G. MacDonell
Understanding Technology Use in Global Virtual Teams: Research Methodologies and Methods. CoRR (2021)
Nidhi Gowdra, Roopak Sinha, Stephen G. MacDonell
Examining convolutional feature extraction using Maximum Entropy (ME) and Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) for image classification. CoRR (2021)
Katia Romero Felizardo, Norsaremah Salleh, Rafael Messias Martins, Emilia Mendes, Stephen G. MacDonell, José Carlos Maldonado
Using Visual Text Mining to Support the Study Selection Activity in Systematic Literature Reviews. CoRR (2021)
Diana Kirk, Stephen G. MacDonell
An Ontological Analysis of a Proposed Theory for Software Development. CoRR (2021)
Solomon Mensah, Jacky Keung, Stephen G. MacDonell, Michael Franklin Bosu, Kwabena Ebo Bennin
Investigating the Significance of Bellwether Effect to Improve Software Effort Estimation. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell
What Affects Team Behavior? Preliminary Linguistic Analysis of Communications in the Jazz Repository. CoRR (2021)
Bilal Raza, Tony Clear, Stephen G. MacDonell
Continuous Transition in Outsourcing: A Case Study. CoRR (2021)
Sherlock A. Licorish, Johannes Holvitie, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Ville Leppänen, Rodrigo O. Spínola, Thiago Souto Mendes, Stephen G. MacDonell, Jim Buchan
Adoption and Suitability of Software Development Methods and Practices. CoRR (2021)
Barry Dowdeswell, Roopak Sinha, Stephen G. MacDonell
Architecting an Agent-Based Fault Diagnosis Engine for IEC 61499 Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. Future Internet 13 (8) (2021)
Paolo Tell, Jil Klünder, Steffen Küpper, David Raffo, Stephen G. MacDonell, Jürgen Münch, Dietmar Pfahl, Oliver Linssen, Marco Kuhrmann
What are Hybrid Development Methods Made Of? An Evidence-based Characterization. CoRR (2021)
Georgia Frantzeskou, Stephen G. MacDonell, Efstathios Stamatatos, Stelios Georgiou, Stefanos Gritzalis
The significance of user-defined identifiers in Java source code authorship identification. CoRR (2021)

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Stephen G. MacDonell