Marc Roper's Publications
- A. Dunsmore, M. Roper, M. Wood
Software Inspections
Advances in Computers, Vol. 58, M. Zelkowitz (ed.), Elsevier Science, 2003,
pp203-238 (chapter).
- Roper, Marc.
Software Testing, entry in Encyclopaedia of Physical Science and
Technology, 3rd Edition, Volume 15, pp41-47, Academic Press, 2002.
- Roper,M.
Software Testing , McGraw-Hill, 1994, 149 pages,
ISBN 0-07-707466-1.
- Dunne P., Roper M. and Smith P.
The Use of Discrete Mathematics to Formalise the Software
Testing Process ,
In: De Neumann, B., Simpson, D. and Slater, G. (eds.)
Mathematical Structures for Software Engineering ,
OUP, March 1991.
- Parrington N. and Roper M.
Understanding Software Testing
Ellis Horwood, 1989, 178 pages, ISBN 0-7458-0533-7.
- Contribution to Chapter 5
(The Programmer's View of Testing) in:
Ould M A and Unwin C (eds.)
Testing in Software Development,
Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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John Clark, Jose Javier Dolado, Mark Harman, Rob Hierons, Bryan Jones,
Mary Lumkin, Brian Mitchell, Spiros Mancoridis, Kearton Rees, Marc Roper
and Martin Shepperd
Reformulating Software Engineering as a Search Problem
IEE Proceedings - Software 150(3): 161-175, 2003.
- A. Dunsmore, M. Roper, M. Wood
Practical Code Inspection Techniques for Object-Oriented Systems:
An Experimental Comparison
IEEE Software, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp21-29, July-August 2003.
- A. Dunsmore, M. Roper, M. Wood
The Development and Evaluation of Three Diverse Techniques for OO Code
Inspection
IEEE Transactions Software Engineering, Vol. 29, No. 8, August 2003.
- A. Dunsmore, M. Roper and M. Wood
The Role of Comprehension in Software Inspection,
Journal of Systems and Sofware, 52, pp121-129, 2000
- Marc Roper
Software Testing - Searching for the Missing Link,
Information and Software Technology, 41(14), pp991-994, 1999
- M. Wood, J. Daly, J. Miller, M. Roper
Multi-Method Research: An Empirical Investigation of Object-Oriented
Technology, Journal of Systems and Software, 1999 (to appear)
- J. Miller, M. Roper, M. Wood
Further Experiences with Scenarios and Checklists,
Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, 3(1), pp37 - 64, Spring 1998
- M. Roper, M. Wood, J. Miller
An Empirical Evaluation of defect detection techniques,
Journal of Information and Software Technology, 39(11), pp763 - 775, 1997
- J. Miller, J. Daly, M. Wood, A. Brooks, M. Roper
Statistical Power and its Subcomponents - Missing and Misunderstood
Concepts in Software Engineering Research,
Journal of Information and Software Technology, 39(4), pp285 - 295, 1997
- J. Daly, A. Brooks, J. Miller, M. Roper, M Wood
Evaluating Inheritance Depth on the Maintainability of Object-Oriented
Software,
Empirical Software Engineering, 1(2), pp109-132, 1996
- F Macdonald, J Miller, A Brooks, M Roper, M Wood
Automating the Software Inspection Process ,
Journal of Automated Software Engineering, 3(3/4), pp193-218, August 1996
- F Macdonald, J Miller, A Brooks, M Roper, M Wood
Applying Inspection to Object-Oriented Code ,
Software Testing Verification and Reliability, 6(2), pp61-82, June 1996
- J Miller, J Daly, M Wood, A Brooks, M Roper
Electronic Bulletin Board Distributed Questionnaires for Exploratory
Research , Journal of Information Science, 22(2), pp107-115, 1996.
- James Miller, Marc Roper, Murray Wood and Andrew Brooks
Towards a Benchmark for the Evaluation of Software Testing Techniques,
Information and Software Technology, 37 (1), 5-13 (1995)
- Marc Roper and Ab Rashid Bin Ab Rahim
Software Testing Using Analysis and Design Based Techniques,
Software Testing, Verification and Reliability,
3, 165-179 (1993)
- Roper, M Software Testing: A Selected Annotated Bibliography,
Software Testing, Verification and Reliability,
2, 113-132 (1992)
- Roper R M F and Smith P
Functional Testing of JSP Designed Programs,
Information and Software Technology, 30 (2), 89 - 98, March 1988
- Roper R M F and Smith P
A Software Tool for Testing JSP Designed Programs,
Software Engineering Journal, 2 (2), 46 - 52, March 1987
- Roper R M F and Smith P
A Structured Testing Method for JSP Designed Programs,
Software - Practice and Experience, 17 (2), 135 - 157,
February 1987.
- M. J. Pacione, M. Roper, M. Wood
A Comparative Evaluation of Dynamic Visualisation Tools
Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2003),
Victoria, BC, November 2003 (to appear).
- N. Walkinshaw , M. Roper, M. Wood
The Java System Dependence Graph
3rd IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation
(SCAM 2003)Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2003 (to appear).
- D. Kirk, M. Roper, M. Wood
Defining the Problems of Framework Reuse
Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Computer Software and
Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2002),
Oxford, UK, pp623-626 & 282-283, August 2002.
- A. Dunsmore, M. Roper, M. Wood
Further Investigations into the Development and Evaluation
of Reading Techniques for Object-Oriented Code Inspection,
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2002), Florida, USA, pp47-57, May 2002.
- A. Dunsmore, M. Roper, M. Wood
Practical Code Inspection for Object-Oriented Systems
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Inspection in Software Engineering
(WISE'01), Paris, France, pp49-57, July 2001.
- A. Dunsmore, M. Roper, M. Wood
Systematic Object-Oriented Inspection - An Empirical Study
In: Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2001), Toronto, Canada. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp135-144, May 2001.
- Alastair Dunsmore, Marc Roper and Murray Wood,
Object-Oriented Inspection in the Face of Delocalization,
In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2000), Limerick, Ireland. ACM Press, pp467-476, June 2000.
- Marc Roper and Alastair Dunsmore,
Problems, Pitfalls and Prospects for OO Code Reviews,
7th European International Conference on Software Testing Analysis and
Review, Barcelona, November 1999
- A Dunsmore, M Roper and M Wood,
The Role of Comprehension in
Software Inspection,
3rd International Workshop on Empirical Assessment and
Evaluation in Software Engineering (EASE), Keele University, April 1999
- B. Haworth and M. Roper
Towards the Development of Adequacy Criteria for Object-Oriented
Systems,
euroSTAR' 97 - 5th Euopean Conference on Software Testing Analysis and Review,
Edinburgh, November 1997
- J. Miller, M. Roper, M. Wood
Defect Classification for Object-Oriented Maintenance
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Empirical Studies of
Software Maintenance, 1997
- J. Miller, M. Roper, M. Wood
Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Object-Oriented Technology
on Maintenance,
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Empirical Studies of
Software Maintenance, 1997
- M. Wood, M. Roper, A. Brooks, J. Miller
Comparing and Combining Software Defect Detection Techniques: a
Replicated Empirical Study,
Proceedings of The Sixth European Software Engineering Conference / Fifth
ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering,
September 1997, Mehdi Jazayeri, Helmut Schauer (Eds.),
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1301, pp 262-277
- M. Roper
Computer Aided Software Testing Using Genetic Algorithms,
10th International Quality Week Conference, San Francisco, 27-30 May 1997
- Marc Roper
Automatic Test Data Generation,
Software Testing'96, Paris, June 1996
- M. Roper
CAST with GAs (Genetic Algorithms) - Automatic Test Data Generation
via. Evolutionary Computation,
IEE Colloquium on Computer Aided Software Testing Tools, April, 1996
- M. Wood, A. Brooks, J. Miller and M. Roper
Empirical Evaluation of Software Quality Attributes,
Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Software Quality
Management, Mechanical Engineering Publications Limited, p271-283,
1996
- John Daly, Andrew Brooks, James Miller, Marc Roper and Murray Wood
Evaluating the Effect of Inheritance on the Maintainability
of Object-Oriented Software, in Wayne D. Gray and Deborah A. Boehm-Davis
(eds.), Empirical Studies of Programmers: Sixth Workshop, p39-57,
Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1996
- J. Daly, J. Miller, A. Brooks, M. Roper and M. Wood
A survey of experiences amongst object-oriented practitioners,
Proceedings of the IEEE Second Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference,
p137-146, December, 1995
- J. Daly, A. Brooks, J. Miller, M. Roper and M. Wood
The effect of inheritance on the maintainability of object-oriented
software: An empirical study,
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance,
p20-29, October , 1995
- J. Daly, J. Miller, A. Brooks, M. Roper and M. Wood
A multi-method approach to performing empirical research,
IEEE Software Process Newsletter, 4, p9-11, 1995
- J. Daly, J. Miller, A. Brooks, M. Roper and M. Wood
A survey of experiences amongst object-oriented practitioners,
Proceedings of the IEEE Second Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference,
p137-146, December, 1995
- F. Macdonald, J. Miller, A. Brooks, M. Roper and M. Wood.
A Review of Tool Support for Software Inspection,
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Computer
Aided Software Engineering, July, 1995, pages 340-349
- Miller, J and Darroch, G and Wood, M and Brooks, A and Roper, M
Changing Programming Paradigm - An Empirical Investigation,
Proc. Software Quality and Productivity, p62-65, Hong Kong, December 1994
- Miller, J and Wood, M and Brooks, A and Roper, M
Applying Object-Oriented Construction to Fault Tolerant Systems,
Proc. 1st Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference,
p22 -- 28, Tokyo, December 1994
- Marc Roper, James Miller, Andrew Brooks and Murray Wood
Towards the Experimental Evaluation of Software Testing Techniques
EuroSTAR '94, pp 44/1-44/10October 10-13 1994, Brussels
- J. Daly, A. Brooks, J. Miller, M.Roper and M.Wood
Verification of Results in Software Maintenance Through External
Replication
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, pp 50-57
Sept 19-23 1994, Victoria, BC Canada
- Roper, Marc and Ab.Rahim, Ab.Rashid bin
Software Testing Using Design-Based Techniques
11th International Conference on Testing Computer Software, pp 333-340,
June 13-16 1994, Washington DC
- Roper, Marc and Ab.Rahim, Ab.Rashid bin
Software Testing Using Design-Based Techniques
EuroSTAR '93, pp 291-307, 25th-28th October 1993
- Smith, P., NG, S., Steward, A., and Roper, M.
Criteria for the Validation of Expert Systems
presented at The World Congress on Expert Systems,
Florida, December 1991
- Hunter, R.B. and Roper, M.
The Standardisation of Source Code Metrics,
presented at Eurometrics '91,
Issy-les-Molinieaux, March 1991
- Roper R M F and Smith P
A Formal Program Testing Methodology for use in the
Development of Commercial Software,
Proc. 2nd BCS/IEE Conference: Software Engineering 88,
IEE Conference Publication Number 290, pp 128 - 132,
University of Liverpool, 11 - 15 July 1988
- Roper M and Smith P
A Structural Testing Method
Presented at 9th Minnowbrook Workshop on Software
Performance Evaluation, New York, August 1986
- M. Roper
Estimating Remaining Fault Numbers After Module Testing
Technical Report - EFoCS-39-2001
- M. Roper
Testing Distributed Object-Oriented Systems
Technical Report - EFoCS-40-2001