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The Rise of Empirical Software Engineering (I): the Good News

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Bertrand Meyer

October 19, 2009

Empirical software engineering papers, at places like the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), used to be terrible. There were exceptions, of course, but the scene has greatly improved.

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