Austen Rainer

Orcid: 0000-0001-8868-263X

Affiliations:
  • University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK (former)
  • Bournemouth University, Poole, UK (PhD 1999)


According to our database1, Austen Rainer authored at least 76 papers between 1999 and 2024.

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2024
Delivering computing module for the large part-time software development class from pre- to post-pandemic: An online learning experience.
J. Syst. Softw., April, 2024

Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies - An evidential problem.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2024

EHAZOP: A Proof of Concept Ethical Hazard Analysis of an Assistive Robot.
CoRR, 2024

A Unified Approach to the Development of Technology-Based Software Quality Models on the Example of Blockchain Systems.
IEEE Access, 2024

2023
Where is all the research software? An analysis of software in UK academic repositories.
PeerJ Comput. Sci., 2023

Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2023

Reproducible Searches in Systematic Reviews: An Evaluation and Guidelines.
IEEE Access, 2023

Software Quality Assessment: Defect Life Cycle, Software Defect Profile, Its Types and Misalignments.
Proceedings of the Software Quality: Higher Software Quality through Zero Waste Development, 2023

The Most Agile Teams Are the Most Disciplined: On Scaling out Agile Development.
Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023

Relationship between factors influencing the software development process and software defects.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Dependable Systems, 2023

Exploiting Paired Concepts to Facilitate Software Engineering Education.
Proceedings of the 30th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 2023

2022
Is it a case study? - A critical analysis and guidance.
J. Syst. Softw., 2022

Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2022

Introduction to the Special Issue on: Grey Literature and Multivocal Literature Reviews (MLRs) in software engineering.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2022

Academic Search Engines: Constraints, Bugs, and Recommendation.
CoRR, 2022

Academic search engines: constraints, bugs, and recommendations.
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Automating Test Case Design, 2022

Managing the Root Causes of "Internal API Hell": An Experience Report.
Proceedings of the Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 2022

Story-thinking, computational-thinking, programming and software engineering.
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, 2022

Voting Item: Story-work in human-centric software engineering.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering , 2022

On Kubernetes-aided Federated Database Systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, 2022

2021
Gray Literature Versus Academic Literature in Software Engineering: A Call for Epistemological Analysis.
IEEE Softw., 2021

Challenges and recommendations to publishing and using credible evidence in software engineering.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2021

Practitioner-generated blog posts as evidence for software engineering research: attitudinal survey and preliminary checklist.
CoRR, 2021

Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles.
Proceedings of the EASE 2021: Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2021

Storytelling in human-centric software engineering research.
Proceedings of the EASE 2021: Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2021

2020
Anaya's Journey: A Vision for a Future Software Academy.
IEEE Softw., 2020

Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping.
J. Syst. Softw., 2020

Retrieving and mining professional experience of software practice from grey literature: an exploratory review.
IET Softw., 2020

Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research.
Proceedings of the Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering, 2020

2019
Using blog-like documents to investigate software practice: Benefits, challenges, and research directions.
J. Softw. Evol. Process., 2019

Heuristics for improving the rigour and relevance of grey literature searches for software engineering research.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2019

Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research.
CoRR, 2019

Mobile Apps with Dynamic Bindings Between the Fog and the Cloud.
Proceedings of the Service-Oriented Computing - 17th International Conference, 2019

Do software engineering practitioners cite software testing research in their online articles?: A larger scale replication.
Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment on Software Engineering, 2019

How do empirical software engineering researchers assess the credibility of practitioner-generated blog posts?
Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment on Software Engineering, 2019

2018
Using Blog Articles in Software Engineering Research: Benefits, Challenges and Case-Survey Method.
Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Software Engineering Conference, 2018

2017
Using argumentation theory to analyse software practitioners' defeasible evidence, inference and belief.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2017

Toward the use of blog articles as a source of evidence for software engineering research.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2017

Investigating developers' email discussions during decision-making in Python language evolution.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2017

Interactive Posters: An Alternative to Collect Practitioners' Experience.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2017

2016
Identifying Practitioners' Arguments and Evidence in Blogs: Insights from a Pilot Study.
Proceedings of the 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 2016

2014
When Agile Is Not Good Enough: an initial attempt at understanding how to make the right decision.
CoRR, 2014

Use of re-attempts measure for evaluating device test results of children with neurological impairments.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human System Interactions, 2014

2013
Robot-Mediated Interviews: Do Robots Possess Advantages over Human Interviewers When Talking to Children with Special Needs?
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 5th International Conference, 2013

2012
Case Study Research in Software Engineering - Guidelines and Examples.
Wiley, ISBN: 978-1-118-10435-4, 2012

2011
The longitudinal, chronological case study research strategy: A definition, and an example from IBM Hursley Park.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2011

2010
Representing the behaviour of software projects using multi-dimensional timelines.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2010

Selecting Features in Origin Analysis.
Proceedings of the Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVII, 2010

2009
Building Classifiers to Identify Split Files.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, 2009

An assessment of published evaluations of requirements management tools.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2009

2008
Using n-grams to rapidly characterise the evolution of software code.
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2008

Exposure model for prediction of number of customer reported defects.
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2008

A follow-up empirical evaluation of evidence based software engineering by undergraduate students.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2008

2007
Communication: the neglected technical skill?
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference on Computer Personnel Research 2007, 2007

2006
Trust in software outsourcing relationships: An empirical investigation of Indian software companies.
Inf. Softw. Technol., 2006

A Preliminary Empirical Investigation of the Use of Evidence Based Software Engineering by Under-graduate Students.
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

The Value of Empirical Evidence for Practitioners and Researchers.
Proceedings of the Empirical Software Engineering Issues. Critical Assessment and Future Directions, 2006

2005
Defining a Requirements Process Improvement Model.
Softw. Qual. J., 2005

Software engineering practice versus evidence-based software engineering research.
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2005

Using an expert panel to validate a requirements process improvement model.
J. Syst. Softw., 2005

Sampling Open Source Projects from Portals: Some Preliminary Investigations.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Software Metrics (METRICS 2005), 2005

Using Software Development Progress Data to Understand Threats to Project Outcomes.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Software Metrics (METRICS 2005), 2005

2004
Critical factors in software outsourcing: a pilot study.
Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research, 2004

Identifying the Causes of Poor Progress in Software Projects.
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2004), 2004

2003
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of factors affecting software processes.
J. Syst. Softw., 2003

Software Process Improvement Problems in Twelve Software Companies: An Empirical Analysis.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2003

Persuading Developers to 'Buy into' Software Process Improvement: Local Opinion and Empirical Evidence.
Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE 2003), 30 September, 2003

2002
Implementing software process improvement: an empirical study.
Softw. Process. Improv. Pract., 2002

Key success factors for implementing software process improvement: a maturity-based analysis.
J. Syst. Softw., 2002

Requirements problems in twelve software companies: an empirical analysis.
IEE Proc. Softw., 2002

2001
An analysis of some core studies of software process improvement.
Softw. Process. Improv. Pract., 2001

An Empirical Study of Maintenance Issues within Process Improvement Programmes in the Software Industry.
Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2001

2000
An Empirical Investigation Of Software Project Schedule Behaviour.
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2000

1999
An empirical investigation of software project schedule behaviour.
PhD thesis, 1999

Re-Planning for a Successful Project Schedule.
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 1999), 1999


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