Mika Mäntylä

Project manager, Researcher, D.Sc.
Aalto University
Software Business and Engineering Laboratory (SoberIT)

Work

I am currently a post-doc at Software Engineering Research Group at Lund Sweden.

Formerly I was a project-manager, teacher and post-doctoral researcher in Software Process Research Group (SPRG). I am still loosely associated with SPRG.

For free/busy information see my calendar.

Research Interests

• Empirical software engineering
• Defect databases
• Software testing
• Software quality practices
• Software evolution and maintainability 

Teaching

• T-76.3601 Introduction to Software Engineering
  teacher-in-charge, spring '11
• T-76.5613 Software testing and quality assurance,
  teacher-in-charge, fall '08, '09, '10

Selected Publications

Journals

Mäntylä, M. V., Itkonen, J., Iivonen, J.,   "Who Tested My Software? Testing as an Organizationally Cross-Cutting Activity ", Software Quality Journal, vol. 20, issue 1, January 2012, pp. 145-172.

Lehtinen. T. O. A., Mäntylä M. V., and Vanhanen J.  "Development and Evaluation of a Lightweight Root Cause Analysis Method (ARCA method) - Field Studies at Four Software Companies", Information and Software Technology vol. 53, issue 10, October 2011, pp.1045-1061

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

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.

Recent Papers in Conferences / Workshops (full paper reviewed)

Bin Ali N. , Petersen K. and Mäntylä M. V., “Testing Highly Complex System of Systems: An Industrial Case Stud” in Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), (forthcoming), 2012,

Rafi, D. M., Moses, K. R. K., Petersen K., Mäntylä, M. V., “Benefits and Limitations of Automated Software Testing: Systematic Literature Review and Practitioner Survey” in Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (co-located with ICSE) (AST), 2012, (forthcoming)