Publications

Journal

  1. A. Bakir, B. Turhan and A. Bener, “A New Perspective on Data Homogeneity in Software Cost Estimation: A Study in Embedded Systems Domain”, (accepted for publication in) Software Quality Journal, 2009.
  2. Y. Kultur, B. Turhan and A. Bener, “Ensemble of Neural Networks with Associative Memory (ENNA) for Estimating Software Development Costs”, Knowledge Based Systems Journal, Vol.22/6, pp.395-402, 2009.
  3. B. Turhan, T. Menzies,A. Bener and J. Distefano, “On the relative value of cross-company and within-company data for defect prediction”, Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Vol.14/5, pp.540-578, 2009.
  4. B. Turhan and A. Bener, “Analysis of Naive Bayes’ Assumptions on Software Fault Data: An Empirical Study”, Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, Vol. 68/2, pp.278-290, 2009.
  5. A. Tosun, B. Turhan, A. Bener, “Feature Weighting Heuristics for Analogy Based Effort Estimation Models”, Expert Systems with Applications Journal, Vol. 36/7, pp.10325-10333, 2009.
  6. B. Turhan, A. Bener and G. Kocak “Data Mining Source Code for Locating Software Bugs: A Case Study in Telecommunication Industry”, Expert Systems with Applications Journal, Vol. 36/6, pp.9986-9990, 2009.
  7. Y. Kosker, B. Turhan and A. Bener, “An Expert System for Determining Candidate Software Classes for Refactoring”,Expert Systems with Applications Journal, Vol. 36/6, pp.10000-10004, 2009.

International Conference & Workshops

  1. B. Turhan, A. Bener, P. Kuvaja and M. Oivo, “A Quantitative Comparison of Test-first and Test-last Code in an Industrial Project”, to appear in Proceedings of the The 11th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2010), 2010.
  2. A. Rohunen, P. Rodriguez, P. Kuvaja, L. Krzanik, J. Markkula and B. Turhan, “Agile Adoption Strategies in the Context of Agile in the Large: FLEXI Agile Adoption Industrial Inventory”, to appear in Proceedings of the The 11th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2010), 2010.
  3. A. Tosun, B. Turhan and A. Bener, “Implementation of a Software Quality Improvement Project in an SME: A Before and After Comparison”, to appear in Proceedings of the 35th EUROMICRO Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (EUROMICRO-SEAA 2009), 2009.
  4. E. Kocaguneli, A. Tosun, A. Bener, B. Turhan, B. Caglayan, “Prest: An Intelligent Software Metrics Extraction, Analysis and Defect Prediction Tool”, to appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), 2009
  5. A. Bakir, E. Kocaguneli, A. Tosun, A.Bener and B. Turhan, “Xiruxe: An Intelligent Fault Tracking Tool”, to appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR), 2009.
  6. Best Paper Award: A. Tosun, A.Bener and B. Turhan, “Practical Considerations in Deploying AI for Defect Prediction: A Case Study within the Telecommunication Industry”, in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Predictor Models (PROMISE), 2009.
  7. G.Gay, T.Menzies, B.Cukic and B. Turhan, “How to Share Experiments”, in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Predictor Models (PROMISE), 2009.
  8. A. Tosun, B. Turhan and A.Bener, “Validation of Network Measures as Indicators of Defective Modules in Software Systems”, in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Predictor Models (PROMISE), 2009.
  9. A.Tosun, B. Turhan and A. Bener, “Direct and Indirect Effects of Software Defect Predictors on Development Lifecycle: An Industrial Case Study”, to appear in Proceedings of the 19th Interntational Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE’08 Industry Track), 2008.
  10. A. Tosun, B. Turhan and A.Bener, “Ensemble of Software Defect Predictors: A Case Study”, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2008), pp.318-320, 2008.
  11. Y.Kultur, B. Turhan and A. Bener, “ENNA: Software Effort Estimation Using Ensemble of Neural Networks with Associative Memory”, in Proceedings of the 16th Interntational Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT FSE 2008), pp.330-338, 2008.
  12. B.Turhan, G. Kocak and A. Bener, “Software Defect Prediction Using Call Graph Based Ranking (CGBR) Framework”, in Proceedings of the 34th EUROMICRO Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (EUROMICRO-SEAA 2008), pp.191-198, 2008.
  13. B. Turhan, A. Bener, and T. Menzies, “Nearest Neighbor Sampling for Cross Company Defect Predictors”, in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Defects in Large Software Systems (DEFECTS 2008), pp. 26, 2008.
  14. B. Turhan and A.Bener, “Weighted Static Code Attributes for Software Defect Prediction”, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2008), pp.143-148, 2008.
  15. T. Menzies, B. Turhan, A. Bener, G. Gay, B. Cukic, Y. Jiang, “Implications of Ceiling Effects in Defect Predictors”, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE 2008), pp. 47-54, 2008.
  16. A. Bakir, B. Turhan and A.Bener, “Software Effort Estimation as a Classification Problem”, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008), pp.274-277, 2008.
  17. A. Tosun, B. Turhan and A. Bener, “The Benefits of a Software Quality Improvement Project in a Medical Software Company: A Before and After Comparison”, Invited Paper in International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT’08), 2008. (Keynote Speech)
  18. B. Baskeles, B. Turhan and A. Bener, “Software Effort Estimation Using Machine Learning Methods”, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2007), pp.126-131, 2007.
  19. B. Turhan and A. Bener, “A Multivariate Analysis of Static Code Attributes for Defect Prediction”, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2007), pp. 231-237, 2007.
  20. B. Turhan, “Software Defect Prediction Modeling”, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE 2007), pp. 90-95, 2007.
  21. B. Turhan, O.Kutlubay and A. Bener, “Evaluation of Feature Extraction Methods on Software Cost Estimation”, in Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007), pp. 497, 2007.
  22. O. Kutlubay, B. Turhan and A. Bener, “A Two-Step Model for Defect Density Estimation”, in Proceedings of the 33rd EUROMICRO Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (EUROMICRO-SEAA 2007), pp. 322-332, 2007.
  23. B. Turhan and A. Bener, “Software Defect Prediction: Heuristics for Weighted Naive Bayes”, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007), pp.244-249, 2007.
  24. B. Turhan and A. Bener, “A Template for Real World Team Projects for Highly Populated Software Engineering Classes”, in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007), pp. 748-753, 2007.
  25. B. Turhan and O. Kutlubay, “Mining Software Data”, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDE 2007), pp. 912-916, 2007.

National Conference & Workshops

  1. E. Kocaguneli, A. Tosun, B. Caglayan, A. Bener, T. Aytac, B. Turhan, “Bulutlarda Akilli Bir Yazilim Olcumleme, Hata Analiz ve Tahmin Aracı: Prest” (in Turkish), 2nd National Symposium on Software Engineering, 2009.
  2. B. Turhan, A. Bener and Y.Kosker, “Tekrar Tasarim Gerektiren Siniflarin Karmasiklik Olcutleri Kullanilarak Modellenmesi” (in Turkish), 2nd National Conference on Software Architecture, 2008.
  3. B. Turhan and A. Bener, “Yazilim Hata Kestirimi için Kaynak Kod Ölçütlerine Dayali Bayes Siniflandirmasi” (in Turkish), 1st National Symposium on Software Engineering, 2007.
  4. B. Turhan, A. D. Oral and A. Bener, “A Short Survey on Software Architechture Evaluation Methods and Object Oriented Metrics”, 1st National Conference on Software Architecture, 2006.
  5. B. Turhan and E. Alpaydin, “Unsupervised Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Methods”, (International) Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, 2004
  6. L. Santemiz, I. A. Sahin, B. Turhan and H. L. Akin, “Aibo Robotu Üzerinde Hizli Hareket Tiplerinin Gelistirilmesi” (in Turkish), National Symposium on Control Engineering , 2002.

Books

  1. O.T. Yildiz, B. Mecit, B. Özisikyilmaz, D. Unat, B. Turhan, H. Özgür, “Introduction to Computers”, Bogazici University Press, No. 831, Istanbul, 2004.