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@inproceedings{Deme01n,
author = {Serge Demeyer and Tom Mens and Michel Wermelinger},
booktitle = {Proceedings {IWPSE}'01 (4th International Workshop on
Principles of Software Evolution)},
editor = {Tetsuo Tamai and Mikio Aoyama and Keith Bennett},
month = sep,
pages = {147-177},
publisher = {{ACM} Press},
title = {Towards a Software Evolution Benchmark},
year = {2001},
abstract = {Case-studies are extremely popular in rapidly
evolving research disciplines such as software
engineering because they allow for a quick but fair
assessment of new techniques. Unfortunately, a proper
experimental set-up is rarely the case: all too often
case-studies are based on a single small toy-example
chosen to favour the technique under study. Such lack
of scientific rigor prevents fair evaluation and has
serious consequences for the credibility of our
field. In this paper, we propose to use a
representative set of cases as a benchmark for
comparing various techniques dealing with software
evolution. We hope that this proposal will launch a
consensus building process that eventually must lead
to a scientifically sound validation method for
researchers investigating reverse- and re-engineering
techniques},
annote = {workshoppaper},
}