Barbara Kitchenham

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Barbara Ann Kitchenham is a retired British computer scientist and software engineer known for her research on systematic reviews in software engineering and on evidence-based practice in software engineering. She is a professor emerita of computer science at Keele University. [1]

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Education and career

Kitchenham was a student at the University of Leeds. She received a bachelor's degree with joint honours in mathematics and statistics in 1969, and a master's degree in statistics in 1970. In 1972 she completed a Ph.D. through the Department of Mining and Mineral Engineering. [2] [3]

She worked in industry as a statistician before joining International Computers Limited (ICL) in the mid-1970s as a systems programmer, [3] later working there on software metrics. After ten years at ICL, and two years as a reader in the Centre for Software Reliability of City, University of London, she moved to the National Computing Centre in Manchester in 1988. [4] Her subsequent affiliations have included NICTA in Australia, and Keele University. [5]

Recognition

Kitchenham's 2004 paper "Evidence-based software engineering", with Tore Dybå and Magne Jørgensen, was the 2014 recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award. [6] In 2019, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Software Engineering gave Kitchenham their Distinguished Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Leadership Award. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Our people", School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Keele University, retrieved 2024-01-05
  2. ↑ "Barbara Kitchenham", ORCiD, retrieved 2024-01-05
  3. 1 2 "Notes on the authors" (PDF), ICL Technical Journal: 115–116, May 1984, retrieved 2024-01-05
  4. ↑ Author information from Kitchenham, Barbara A. (July 1989), "Software quality assurance", Microprocessors and Microsystems, 13 (6): 373–381, doi:10.1016/0141-9331(89)90045-8
  5. ↑ "Barbara A. Kitchenham", DBLP, retrieved 2024-01-05
  6. ↑ ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award, ACM SIGSOFT, retrieved 2024-01-05
  7. ↑ "2019 IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Leadership Award", Technical Committee on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, retrieved 2024-01-05
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