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Overview

Tracy Hall is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on software-related studies. Their research includes work in Information Systems, Software, Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, and Signal Processing.

Their research outputs emphasize topics such as Software Engineering Research, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Software System Performance and Reliability, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, and Human-Automation Interaction and Safety.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Tracy Hall include:

  • On The Introduction of Automatic Program Repair in Bloomberg, 2021, IEEE Software
  • How do Developers Really Feel About Bug Fixing? Directions for Automatic Program Repair, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • How Software Developers Mitigate Their Errors When Developing Code, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Let's Talk With Developers, Not About Developers: A Review of Automatic Program Repair Research, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Towards developer-centered automatic program repair: findings from Bloomberg, 2022, Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Frequent co-authors associated with Tracy Hall's research include David Bowes, Emily Winter, Vesna Nowack, Steve Counsell, and Sæmundur Ó. Haraldsson.

Publication venues where Tracy Hall has appeared regularly include:

  • IEEE Software
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
  • Information and Software Technology

Their work spans a notable range of software engineering related challenges and solutions, reflecting an interest in both the technical and human aspects of software development and reliability.

Best Publications

  • A Systematic Literature Review on Fault Prediction Performance in Software Engineering

    T. Hall;S. Beecham;D. Bowes;D. Gray

  • Motivation in Software Engineering: A systematic literature review

    Sarah Beecham;Nathan Baddoo;Tracy Hall;Hugh Robinson

  • Researcher Bias: The Use of Machine Learning in Software Defect Prediction

    Martin Shepperd;David Bowes;Tracy Hall

  • Key success factors for implementing software process improvement: A maturity-based analysis

    Austen Rainer;Tracy Hall

  • De-motivators for software process improvement: An analysis of practitioners' views

    Nathan Baddoo;Tracy Hall

  • Requirements problems in twelve software companies: an empirical analysis

    Tracy Hall;Sarah Beecham;Austen Rainer

  • Code Bad Smells: a review of current knowledge

    Min Zhang;Tracy Hall;Nathan Baddoo

  • Models of motivation in software engineering

    Helen Sharp;Nathan Baddoo;Sarah Beecham;Tracy Hall

  • Using an expert panel to validate a requirements process improvement model

    Sarah Beecham;Tracy Hall;Carol Britton;Michaela Cottee

  • Implementing effective software metrics programs

    T. Hall;N. Fenton

  • Some Code Smells Have a Significant but Small Effect on Faults

    Tracy Hall;Min Zhang;David Bowes;Yi Sun

  • Software Process Improvement Problems in Twelve Software Companies: An Empirical Analysis

    Sarah Beecham;Tracy Hall;Austen Rainer

  • Software defect prediction: do different classifiers find the same defects?

    David Bowes;Tracy Hall;Jean Petrić;Jean Petrić

  • Original papers: Trust in software outsourcing relationships: An empirical investigation of Indian software companies

    Nilay V Oza;Tracy Hall;Austen Rainer;Susan Grey

  • Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

    Martin Shepperd;Tracy Hall;Ingunn Myrtveit

  • A quantitative and qualitative analysis of factors affecting software processes

    Austen Rainer;Tracy Hall

  • Implementing Software Process Improvement: An Empirical study

    Tracy Hall;Austen Rainer;Nathan Baddoo

  • Defining a Requirements Process Improvement Model

    Sarah Beecham;Tracy Hall;Austen Rainer

  • A systematic review of theory use in studies investigating the motivations of software engineers

    Tracy Hall;Nathan Baddoo;Sarah Beecham;Hugh Robinson

  • Difficulties in Managing Offshore Software Outsourcing Relationships: An Empirical Analysis of 18 High Maturity Indian Software Companies

    Nilay V Oza;Tracy Hall

  • Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming: 17th International Conference, XP 2016, Edinburgh, UK, May 24-27, 2016, Proceedings

    Helen Sharp;Tracy Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve Counsell
Steve Counsell Brunel University London
Helen Sharp
Helen Sharp The Open University
Martin Shepperd
Martin Shepperd Brunel University London
Norman Fenton
Norman Fenton Queen Mary University of London
Stewart Robinson
Stewart Robinson Loughborough University
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv University of Waterloo
Stephen G. MacDonell
Stephen G. MacDonell Victoria University of Wellington
Ayse Bener
Ayse Bener Toronto Metropolitan University
June M. Verner
June M. Verner Keele University
Michele Marchesi
Michele Marchesi University of Cagliari

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