Mika Mäntylä
Project manager, Researcher
D.Sc.
(Tech.)
Helsinki University
of Technology (HUT)
Software Business and Engineering Laboratory (SoberIT)
I'm a researcher in Software Process Research Group (SPRG). I also act as the project manager for the ESPA research project that is a joint venture between HUT and LUT.
For free/busy information see my calendar.
Journals
Mäntylä, M. V. and Lassenius, C. "What Types of Defects Are Really Discovered in Code Reviews?" IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 35, no 3, May/June 2009, pp. 430-448 <doi>
Mäntylä, M. V. and Lassenius, C. "Subjective Evaluation of Software Evolvability Using Code Smells: An Empirical Study". Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 11, no. 3, 2006, pp. 395-431. Avalable as: pdf
Conferences / Workshops
Itkonen, J., Mäntylä, M. V., Lassenius C., "How Do Testers Do It? An Exploratory Study on Manual Testing Practices", short paper in Proceedings of the third International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2009
Vanhanen, J., Mäntylä, M. V., Itkonen J., " Lightweight Elicitation and Analysis of Software Product Quality Goals – A Multiple Industrial Case Study", in Proceedings of the third International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM), 2009
Itkonen, J., Mäntylä, M. V., Lassenius C, "Defect Detection Efficiency: Test Case Based vs. Exploratory Testing", in Proceedings of the first International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2007
Vanhanen, J., Lassenius C., and Mäntylä M. V., "Issues and Tactics when Adopting Pair Programming: A Longitudinal Case Study", In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007)
Mäntylä, M. V. and Lassenius, C., "Drivers for Software Refactoring Decisions." in Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE), pp. 297-306, 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.Available as: pdf
Mäntylä, M. V., "An Experiment on Subjective Evolvability Evaluation of Object-Oriented Software: Explaining Factors and Interrater Agreement", in Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE), 2005, Noosa, Australia
Mäntylä, M. V., Vanhanen, J, and Lassenius, C., "Bad Smells - Humans as Code Critics", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), 399-408, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Mäntylä, M, "Developing New Approaches for Software Design Quality Improvement Based on Subjective Evaluations" in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (doctoral symposium) (ICSE), pp. 48-50, 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland
Mäntylä, M., Vanhanen, J, and Lassenius, C., "A Taxonomy and an Initial Empirical Study of Bad Smells in Code", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pp. 381-384, 2003, Amsterdam The Netherlands
Thesis / Book chapters
Mäntylä, M., "Software Evolvability – Empirically Discovered Evolvability Issues and Human Evaluations", Doctoral Thesis, Helsinkin University of Technology, 2009. Available as: pdf
Mäntylä, M. :"Two Experiments on Subjective Evaluation of Code Evolvability" Licentiate Thesis. Helsinkin University of Technology, 2005. Available as: pdf
Mäntylä, M., "Software Design and Implementation," in Pacing Software Product Development: A Framework and Practical Guidelines, Helsinki University of Technology, Software Business and Engineering Institute Technical reports 3, eds. K. Rautiainen and C. Lassenius Eds. Espoo: Otamedia Oy, 2004, pp. 49-76.
Mäntylä, M., "Bad Smells in Software – a Taxonomy and an Empirical Study". Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Software Business and Engineering Institute, 2003.Available as: pdf
Geocaching, MMA (spectator sport only)
