Emilia Mendes


Dr. Emilia Mendes is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Auckland (New Zealand), where she leads the WETA (Web Engineering, Technology and Applications) research group. She is the principal investigator in the Tukutuku Research project, aimed at developing and comparing Web effort models using industrial Web project data, and benchmarking productivity within and across Web companies. She has active research interests in the areas of Web engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, Hypermedia and Computer Science education. In particular she focuses on Web quality and metrics, Measurement, effort Prediction and Productivity benchmarking for Web applications, Object-oriented metrics and measurement, Software and Web engineering education, evidence-based research, systematic literature reviews, and Case-based reasoning, in which areas she has published widely. Dr. Mendes has been on the programme committee of more than 70 conferences and workshops, and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, the Journal of Web Engineering, and the Journal of Software Measurement. She has collaborated with Web companies in New Zealand and overseas on Web effort estimation and usability measurement. Dr. Mendes worked in the software industry for ten years before obtaining her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton (UK), and moving to Auckland. She is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Software Measurement Associations.

Publications

Improving Project Management of Healthcare Projects through Knowledge Elicitation
Improving Project Management of Healthcare Projects through Knowledge Elicitation
Emilia Mendes. © 2013. 20 pages.
This chapter describes a case study where Bayesian Networks (BNs) were used to construct an expert-based software effort and risk prediction model for use by a large healthcare...
Web 2.0 Effort Estimation
Web 2.0 Effort Estimation
Emilia Mendes. © 2010. 23 pages.
Web effort models and techniques provide the means for Web companies to formalise the way they estimate effort for their projects, and potentially help in obtaining more accurate...
Applying the WDP Technique to Usability Inspections in Web Development Organizations
Applying the WDP Technique to Usability Inspections in Web Development Organizations
Tayana Conte, Verônica T. Vaz, Jobson Massolar, Andrew Bott, Emilia Mendes, Guilherme H. Travassos. © 2010. 21 pages.
This chapter presents the WDP (Web Design Perspectives-based Usability Evaluation), an inspection technique specifically designed to assess the usability of Web applications....
Cost Estimation Techniques for Web Projects
Cost Estimation Techniques for Web Projects
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 424 pages.
Having realistic estimates of effort at an early stage in a Web project's life is vital to the successful management of resources. The principles of the prediction process...
What is Different about Web and Software Projects?
What is Different about Web and Software Projects?
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 24 pages.
The objective of this chapter is threefold. First is to introduce new terminology that relates specifically to hypertext, the model the Web is based upon. Second, it provides an...
Introduction to Web Cost Estimation
Introduction to Web Cost Estimation
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 37 pages.
Software effort models and effort estimates help project managers allocate resources, control costs, and schedule and improve current practices, which in theory should allow...
How Accurate is an Effort Model?
How Accurate is an Effort Model?
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 16 pages.
Building effort models or using techniques to obtain a measure of estimated effort does not mean that the effort estimates obtained will be accurate. As such, it is also...
Sizing Web Applications
Sizing Web Applications
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 42 pages.
Surveying and classifying previous work in a particular field brings several benefits, which are to (a) help organise a given body of knowledge, (b) provide results that can help...
Web Effort Estimation Usiing Regression Analysis
Web Effort Estimation Usiing Regression Analysis
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 38 pages.
Software effort models and estimates help project managers allocate resources, control costs, and schedule and improve current practices, leading to projects that are finished on...
Web Effort Estimation Using Case-Based Reasoning
Web Effort Estimation Using Case-Based Reasoning
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 45 pages.
Software practitioners recognise the importance of realistic effort estimates to the successful management of software projects, the Web being no exception. Having realistic...
Web Effort Estimation Using Classification and Regression Trees
Web Effort Estimation Using Classification and Regression Trees
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 37 pages.
The use of realistic effort estimates is fundamental to both software and Web project management as they help project managers allocate resources, control costs and schedule, and...
What is the Best Technique?
What is the Best Technique?
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 35 pages.
Although numerous studies on Web effort estimation have been carried out to date, there is no consensus on what constitutes the best effort estimation technique to be used by Web...
How to Improve Your Company's Effort Estimation Practices
How to Improve Your Company's Effort Estimation Practices
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 28 pages.
Numerous Web development companies worldwide do not employ formal techniques to estimate effort for new projects, thus relying on expert-based opinion (McDonald & Welland, 2001;...
Understanding Project Data
Understanding Project Data
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 72 pages.
The objective of this chapter is to provide an introduction to statistical techniques and concepts that are frequently used when dealing with data for effort estimation. The...
The Need for Empirical Web Engineering: An Introduction
The Need for Empirical Web Engineering: An Introduction
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 31 pages.
The objective of this chapter is to motivate the need for empirical investigations in Web engineering, and additionally to describe the three main types of empirical...
Sizing Web Applications for Web Effort Estimation
Sizing Web Applications for Web Effort Estimation
Emilia Mendes. © 2008. 25 pages.
Surveying and classifying previous work on a particular field brings several benefits, which are: 1) to help organise a given body of knowledge; 2) to provide results that can...
Web Development Effort Estimation: An Empirical Analysis
Web Development Effort Estimation: An Empirical Analysis
Emilia Mendes, Silvia Abrahão. © 2008. 31 pages.
Effort models and effort estimates help project managers allocate resources, control costs and schedule, and improve current practices, leading to projects that are finished on...
Web Cost Estimation: An Introduction
Web Cost Estimation: An Introduction
Emilia Mendes, Nile Mosley. © 2005. 21 pages.
Despite the diversity of Web application types, technologies employed, and the number of free templates available on the Web, we still have a considerable amount of Web companies...