EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Claes Wohlin
Blekinge Institute of Technology
371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden
E-mail: Claes.Wohlin@bth.se

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Paul Grnbacher
Institute of Software Systems Engineering
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenbergstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria

Gnther Ruhe
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada

Laurie Williams
North Carolina State University
Department of Computer Science
Campus Box 8206, 890 Oval Drive, Room 3272
Raleigh, NC 27695
E-mail: williams@csc.ncsu.edu

INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD

Aybuke Aurum
School of Information Systems, Technology
and Management, University of New South
Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

Sebastian Elbaum
Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Avery 261, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0115, USA

Doo-Hwan Bae
Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology
373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu
Daejeon 305-701, South Korea

Xavier Franch
Department of Service and Information System
Engineering, Universitat Polite`cnica de Catalunya
(UPC), UPC-Campus Nord, Omega building
oce 122, c/Jordi Girona 1-3
08034 Barcelona, Spain
E-mail: franch@essi.upc.edu

Sjaak Brinkkemper
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
Universiteit Utrecht, Buys Ballot Laboratory
Oce 582, PO Box 80.089, 3508, Utrecht
The Netherlands
E-mail: s.brinkkemper@cs.uu.nl
Yuanfang Cai
Dept. of Computer Science, Drexel University
University Crossings 104, 3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
E-mail: yfcai@cs.drexel.edu
Jeffrey Carver
Department of Computer Science
University of Alabama
2019A Shelby Hall, Box 870290
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
E-mail: carver at cs.ua.edu
Shing-Chi Cheung
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
Hong Kong
E-mail: scc@cse.ust.hk
Ivica Crnkovic
Department of Science and Electronics
Malardalen University, P.O. Box 883
SE-72123 Vasteras, Sweden
Tore Dyb
ICT, SINTEF, Stiftelsen SINTEF
Box 4760 Sluppen, NO-7465, Trondheim, Norway
E-mail: tore.dyba@sintef.no

Information and Software Technology is the

international archival journal focusing on research
and experience that contributes to the improvement
of software development practices. The journals
scope includes methods and techniques to better
engineer software and manage its development.
Articles submitted for review should have a clear
component of software engineering or address ways

doi:10.1016/S0950-5849(14)00227-4

Sudipto Ghosh
Computer Science Department, 601 S.
Howes Street, Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Tracy Hall
School of IS, Computing and Maths
Brunel University, Uxbridge
UBS 3PH, UK
Mark Harman
Department of Computer Science
CREST centre, University College London
Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
E-mail: M.Harman@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Miryung Kim
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin 78712, USA
E-mail: miryung@ece.utexas.edu
Stephen G. MacDonell
Department of Information Science
University of Otago
PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054
New Zealand
Nenad Medvidovic
Computer Science Department
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
941 W. 37th Place, Los Angeles
CA 90089-0781, USA

to improve the engineering and management of

software development. Areas covered by the
journal include: software management, quality
and metrics software processes software
architecture, modelling, specication, design and
programming functional and non-functional
software requirements software testing and
verication & validation empirical studies of all

Nachiappan Nagappan
Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA, USA
E-mail: nachin@microsoft.com
Ipek Ozkaya
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
E-mail: ozkaya@sei.cmu.edu
Brian Robinson
ABB Corporate Research
940 Main Campus Dr. Suite 200
Raleigh, NC, USA
E-mail: brian.p.robinson@us.abb.com
Klaus Schmid
Institute of Computer Science, University of Hildesheim
C 209 Spl, Hildesheim, Germany
E-mail: schmid@sse.uni-hildesheim.de
Carolyn Seaman
Department of Information Systems
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Martin Shepperd
School of IS, Computing & Maths
Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK
Miroslaw Staron
Goteborg University
IT University of Goteborg
Dept. of Applied IT, 41296 Goteborg
Tetsuo Tamai
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba
Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan
Guilherme Horta Travassos
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
COPPE, Caixa Postal 68511, 21941-972
Rio de Janerio, Brazil
Qing Wang
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4 South Fourth Street, Zhong Guan Cun
Beijing 100190, PR China
E-mail: wq@itechs.iscas.ac.cn

aspects of engineering and managing software

development. The journal encourages and welcomes submissions of systematic reviews within
the scope of the journal. Information and Software
Technology has an editor specializing in systematic
reviews.