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ORCIDAusten Rainer
Austen W. Rainer – Austen William Rainer
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- affiliation: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- affiliation (former): University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
- affiliation (PhD 1999): Bournemouth University, Poole, UK
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2020 – today
- 2024
[j30]Oleksandr Gordieiev
, Austen Rainer, Vyacheslav Kharchenko, Olga Pishchukhina, Daria Gordieieva:
A Unified Approach to the Development of Technology-Based Software Quality Models on the Example of Blockchain Systems. IEEE Access 12: 118875-118889 (2024)- [j29]Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin:
Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies - An evidential problem. Inf. Softw. Technol. 174: 107501 (2024) - [j28]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: 111959 (2024) - [i12]Catherine Menon, Austen Rainer, Patrick Holthaus, Gabriella Lakatos, Silvio Carta:
EHAZOP: A Proof of Concept Ethical Hazard Analysis of an Assistive Robot. CoRR abs/2406.09239 (2024) - 2023
- [j27]Zheng Li, Austen Rainer:
Reproducible Searches in Systematic Reviews: An Evaluation and Guidelines. IEEE Access 11: 84048-84060 (2023) - [j26]Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin:
Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers. Inf. Softw. Technol. 161: 107252 (2023) - [j25]Domhnall Carlin, Austen Rainer, David Wilson:
Where is all the research software? An analysis of software in UK academic repositories. PeerJ Comput. Sci. 9: e1546 (2023) - [c38]Zheng Li, Austen Rainer:
Exploiting Paired Concepts to Facilitate Software Engineering Education. APSEC 2023: 559-563 - [c37]Oleksandr Gordieiev, Daria Gordieieva, Austen Rainer, Olga Pishchukhina:
Relationship between factors influencing the software development process and software defects. DESSERT 2023: 1-7 - [c36]Zheng Li, Austen Rainer:
The Most Agile Teams Are the Most Disciplined: On Scaling out Agile Development. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2023: 2056-2061 - [c35]Oleksandr Gordieiev, Daria Gordieieva, Austen Rainer:
Software Quality Assessment: Defect Life Cycle, Software Defect Profile, Its Types and Misalignments. SWQD 2023: 109-120 - 2022
- [j24]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: 106697 (2022) - [j23]Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin:
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research. Inf. Softw. Technol. 151: 107002 (2022) - [j22]Claes Wohlin, Austen Rainer:
Is it a case study? - A critical analysis and guidance. J. Syst. Softw. 192: 111395 (2022) - [c34]Zheng Li, Nicolás Saldías-Vallejos, María Andrea Rodríguez, Austen Rainer:
On Kubernetes-aided Federated Database Systems. CloudCom 2022: 1-8 - [c33]Austen Rainer, Catherine Menon:
Voting Item: Story-work in human-centric software engineering. CHASE@ICSE 2022: 109-110 - [c32]Austen Rainer, Catherine Menon:
Story-thinking, computational-thinking, programming and software engineering. PPIG 2022: 68-76 - [c31]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: 21-36 - [c30]Zheng Li, Austen Rainer:
Academic search engines: constraints, bugs, and recommendations. A-TEST@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2022: 25-32 - [i11]Austen Rainer, Catherine Menon:
Story-thinking, computational-thinking, programming and software engineering. CoRR abs/2206.15066 (2022) - [i10]Zheng Li, Austen Rainer:
Academic Search Engines: Constraints, Bugs, and Recommendation. CoRR abs/2211.00361 (2022) - [i9]Zheng Li, Nicolás Saldías-Vallejos, María Andrea Rodríguez, Austen Rainer:
On Kubernetes-aided Federated Database Systems. CoRR abs/2211.00373 (2022) - 2021
- [j21]Claes Wohlin, Austen Rainer:
Challenges and recommendations to publishing and using credible evidence in software engineering. Inf. Softw. Technol. 134: 106555 (2021) - [j20]Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer:
Gray Literature Versus Academic Literature in Software Engineering: A Call for Epistemological Analysis. IEEE Softw. 38(5): 65-72 (2021) - [c29]Ashley Williams, Matthew Shardlow, Austen Rainer:
Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles. EASE 2021: 100-108 - [c28]Austen Rainer:
Storytelling in human-centric software engineering research. EASE 2021: 241-246 - [i8]Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams:
Practitioner-generated blog posts as evidence for software engineering research: attitudinal survey and preliminary checklist. CoRR abs/2103.01845 (2021) - [i7]Austen Rainer:
Storytelling in human-centric software engineering research. CoRR abs/2104.14296 (2021) - [i6]Ashley Williams, Matthew Shardlow, Austen Rainer:
Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles. CoRR abs/2106.11159 (2021) - [i5]Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin:
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research. CoRR abs/2112.14186 (2021) - 2020
- [j19]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): 665-676 (2020) - [j18]Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer, Per Lauvås Jr., Andrea Arcuri:
Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping. J. Syst. Softw. 165: 110570 (2020) - [j17]Austen Rainer:
Anaya's Journey: A Vision for a Future Software Academy. IEEE Softw. 37(2): 95-96 (2020) - [p1]Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, Mika V. Mäntylä, Austen Rainer:
Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research. Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering 2020: 385-413 - [i4]Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer, Per Lauvås Jr., Andrea Arcuri:
Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping. CoRR abs/2003.03843 (2020) - [i3]Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams, Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer:
Retrieving and mining professional experience of software practice from grey literature: an exploratory review. CoRR abs/2009.14740 (2020)
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [j16]Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams:
Heuristics for improving the rigour and relevance of grey literature searches for software engineering research. Inf. Softw. Technol. 106: 231-233 (2019) - [j15]Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams:
Using blog-like documents to investigate software practice: Benefits, challenges, and research directions. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 31(11) (2019) - [c27]Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer:
How do empirical software engineering researchers assess the credibility of practitioner-generated blog posts? EASE 2019: 211-220 - [c26]Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer:
Do software engineering practitioners cite software testing research in their online articles?: A larger scale replication. EASE 2019: 292-297 - [c25]Dionysis Athanasopoulos, Mitchell McEwen, Austen Rainer:
Mobile Apps with Dynamic Bindings Between the Fog and the Cloud. ICSOC 2019: 539-554 - [i2]Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, Mika V. Mäntylä, Austen Rainer:
Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research. CoRR abs/1911.12038 (2019) - 2018
- [c24]Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams:
Using Blog Articles in Software Engineering Research: Benefits, Challenges and Case-Survey Method. ASWEC 2018: 201-209 - [e1]Austen Rainer, Stephen G. MacDonell, Jacky W. Keung:
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE2018, Christchurch, New Zealand, June 28-29, 2018. ACM 2018 [contents] - 2017
- [j14]Austen Rainer:
Using argumentation theory to analyse software practitioners' defeasible evidence, inference and belief. Inf. Softw. Technol. 87: 62-80 (2017) - [c23]Philipp Diebold, Matthias Galster, Austen Rainer, Sherlock A. Licorish:
Interactive Posters: An Alternative to Collect Practitioners' Experience. EASE 2017: 230-235 - [c22]Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer:
Toward the use of blog articles as a source of evidence for software engineering research. EASE 2017: 280-285 - [c21]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: 286-291 - 2016
- [c20]Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer:
Identifying Practitioners' Arguments and Evidence in Blogs: Insights from a Pilot Study. APSEC 2016: 345-348 - 2014
- [c19]Hock C. Gan, Ray J. Frank, Farshid Amirabdollahian, Austen W. Rainer, Rob Sharp:
Use of re-attempts measure for evaluating device test results of children with neurological impairments. HSI 2014: 206-211 - [i1]Vito Veneziano, Austen W. Rainer, Sheraz Haider:
When Agile Is Not Good Enough: an initial attempt at understanding how to make the right decision. CoRR abs/1402.5557 (2014) - 2013
- [c18]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: 54-63 - 2012
- [b2]Per Runeson, Martin Höst, Austen Rainer, Björn Regnell:
Case Study Research in Software Engineering - Guidelines and Examples. Wiley 2012, ISBN 978-1-118-10435-4, pp. I-XVIII, 1-237 - 2011
- [j13]Austen Rainer:
The longitudinal, chronological case study research strategy: A definition, and an example from IBM Hursley Park. Inf. Softw. Technol. 53(7): 730-746 (2011) - 2010
- [j12]Austen Rainer:
Representing the behaviour of software projects using multi-dimensional timelines. Inf. Softw. Technol. 52(11): 1217-1228 (2010) - [c17]Pam Green, Peter C. R. Lane, Austen Rainer, Sven-Bodo Scholz:
Selecting Features in Origin Analysis. SGAI Conf. 2010: 379-392
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [c16]Austen Rainer, Sarah Beecham, Cei Sanderson:
An assessment of published evaluations of requirements management tools. EASE 2009 - [c15]Pam Green, Peter C. R. Lane, Austen Rainer, Sven-Bodo Scholz:
Building Classifiers to Identify Split Files. MLDM Posters 2009: 1-8 - 2008
- [c14]Austen Rainer, Sarah Beecham:
A follow-up empirical evaluation of evidence based software engineering by undergraduate students. EASE 2008 - [c13]Keld Raaschou, Austen W. Rainer:
Exposure model for prediction of number of customer reported defects. ESEM 2008: 306-308 - [c12]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: 43-52 - 2007
- [c11]Tracy Hall, David Wilson, Austen Rainer, Dorota Jagielska:
Communication: the neglected technical skill? CPR 2007: 196-202 - 2006
- [j11]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): 345-354 (2006) - [c10]Austen Rainer:
The Value of Empirical Evidence for Practitioners and Researchers. Empirical Software Engineering Issues 2006: 24 - [c9]Austen Rainer, Marcus Ciolkowski, Dietmar Pfahl, Barbara A. Kitchenham, Sandro Morasca, Matthias M. Müller, Guilherme Horta Travassos, Sira Vegas:
Teaching Empirical Methods to Undergraduate Students Working Group Results. Empirical Software Engineering Issues 2006: 158-162 - [c8]Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall, Nathan Baddoo:
A Preliminary Empirical Investigation of the Use of Evidence Based Software Engineering by Under-graduate Students. EASE 2006 - 2005
- [j10]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): 251-275 (2005) - [j9]Austen Rainer, Dorota Jagielska, Tracy Hall:
Software engineering practice versus evidence-based software engineering research. ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes 30(4): 1-5 (2005) - [j8]Sarah Beecham, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer:
Defining a Requirements Process Improvement Model. Softw. Qual. J. 13(3): 247-279 (2005) - [c7]Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Dorota Jagielska:
Using Software Development Progress Data to Understand Threats to Project Outcomes. IEEE METRICS 2005: 18 - [c6]Austen Rainer, Stephen Gale:
Sampling Open Source Projects from Portals: Some Preliminary Investigations. IEEE METRICS 2005: 27 - 2004
- [c5]Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall:
Identifying the Causes of Poor Progress in Software Projects. IEEE METRICS 2004: 184-195 - [c4]Nilay V. Oza, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Susan Grey:
Critical factors in software outsourcing: a pilot study. WISER 2004: 67-71 - 2003
- [j7]Sarah Beecham, Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer:
Software Process Improvement Problems in Twelve Software Companies: An Empirical Analysis. Empir. Softw. Eng. 8(1): 7-42 (2003) - [j6]Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall:
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of factors affecting software processes. J. Syst. Softw. 66(1): 7-21 (2003) - [c3]Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall, Nathan Baddoo:
Persuading Developers to 'Buy into' Software Process Improvement: Local Opinion and Empirical Evidence. ISESE 2003: 326-335 - 2002
- [j5]Tracy Hall, Sarah Beecham, Austen Rainer:
Requirements problems in twelve software companies: an empirical analysis. IEE Proc. Softw. 149(5): 153-160 (2002) - [j4]Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall:
Key success factors for implementing software process improvement: a maturity-based analysis. J. Syst. Softw. 62(2): 71-84 (2002) - [j3]Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Nathan Baddoo:
Implementing software process improvement: an empirical study. Softw. Process. Improv. Pract. 7(1): 3-15 (2002) - 2001
- [j2]Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall:
An analysis of some core studies of software process improvement. Softw. Process. Improv. Pract. 6(4): 169-187 (2001) - [c2]Tracy Hall, Austen Rainer, Nathan Baddoo, Sarah Beecham:
An Empirical Study of Maintenance Issues within Process Improvement Programmes in the Software Industry. ICSM 2001: 422-430 - 2000
- [j1]Austen Rainer:
An Empirical Investigation Of Software Project Schedule Behaviour. Empir. Softw. Eng. 5(1): 75-77 (2000)
1990 – 1999
- 1999
- [b1]Austen William Rainer:
An empirical investigation of software project schedule behaviour. Bournemouth University, Poole, UK, 1999 - [c1]Austen Rainer, Martin J. Shepperd:
Re-Planning for a Successful Project Schedule. IEEE METRICS 1999: 72-81
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