Dr Ashley Williams

Eve, Z., Turner, M., Di Basilio, D., Harkin, B., Yates, A., Perrson, S., Henry, J., Williams, A., Walton, G., Jones, M., Whitley, C., Craddock, N. (2023) 'Therapeutic games (TGs) to reduce anxiety and depression in young people: a systematic review and exploratory meta-analysis of their use and effectiveness.' Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy: an international journal of theory and practice, 31(1)

Rainer, A., Williams, A., Garousi, V., Felderer, M. (2020) 'Retrieving and mining professional experience of software practice from grey literature: An exploratory review.' IET Software, 14(6) pp. 665-676.

Rainer, A., Williams, A. (2019) 'Using blog-like documents to investigate software practice: Benefits, challenges, and research directions.' Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 31(11) pp. e2197-e2197.

Rainer, A., Williams, A. (2018) 'Heuristics for improving the rigour and relevance of grey literature searches for software engineering research.' Information and Software Technology, 106pp. 231-233.

Rainer, A., Williams, A. (2018) Do software engineering practitioners cite research on software testing in their online articles? A structured search of grey data..

Williams, A., Rainer, A. (2018) A preliminary, structured review of how professional experience is detected in natural–language texts.

Williams, A., Rainer, A. (2017) The analysis and synthesis of previous work on credibility assessment in online media: technical report.

Roadhouse, C., Shardlow, M., Williams, A. (2024) 'MMU NLP at CheckThat! 2024: Homoglyphs are Adversarial Attacks.' 3740. pp. 580-589.

Attwood, S., Williams, A. (2023) 'Exploring the UK Cyber Skills Gap through a mapping of active job listings to the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK).' pp. 273-278.

Williams, A., Shardlow, M. (2022) 'Extending a corpus for assessing the credibility of software practitioner blog articles using meta-knowledge.' In EASE 2022: The International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. Gothenburg Sweden, 13/6/2022 - 15/6/2022. Staron, M., Berger, C., Simmonds, J., Prikladnicki, R. (ed.) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 305-310.

Williams, A., Buchan, J. (2022) 'Using the case survey methodology for finding high-quality grey literature in software engineering.' In EASE '22: International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering 2022. Gothenburg Sweden, 13/6/2022 - 15/6/2022. Staron, M., Berger, C., Simmonds, J., Prikladnicki, R. (ed.) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-9.

Williams, A., Shardlow, M., Rainer, A. (2021) 'Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles.' In EASE 2021: Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. Trondheim, Norway, 21/6/2021 - 23/6/2021. Chitchyan, R., Li, J. (ed.) New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 100-108.

Williams, A., Rainer, A. (2019) 'How do empirical software engineering researchers assess the credibility of practitioner-generated blog posts?.' ACM, pp. 211-220.

Williams, A., Rainer, A. (2019) 'Do software engineering practitioners cite software testing research in their online articles?: A larger scale replication.' ACM, pp. 292-297.

Rainer, A., Williams, A. (2018) 'Using blog articles in software engineering research: benefits, challenges and case–survey method.' IEEE, pp. 201-209.

Williams, A. (2018) 'Using reasoning markers to select the more rigorous software practitioners’ online content when searching for grey literature.' ACM, pp. 46-56.

Williams, A. (2018) 'Do software engineering practitioners cite research on software testing in their online articles?: A preliminary survey..' ACM, pp. 151-156.

Williams, A., Rainer, A. (2017) 'Toward the use of blog articles as a source of evidence for software engineering research.' ACM, pp. 280-285.

Williams, A., Rainer, A. (2016) 'Identifying practitioners’ arguments and evidence in blogs: insights from a pilot study.' IEEE, pp. 345-348.

Williams, A., Rainer, A. (2016) 'Identifying practitioners' arguments and evidence in blogs: insights from a pilot study.' In 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND, 6/12/2016 - 9/12/2016. Potanin, A., Murphy, G.C., Reeves, S., Dietrich, J. (ed.) IEEE, pp. 345-348.

Williams, A. Assessing the credibility of online articles. [Presentation]