A consequence of the growing number of empirical studies in software engineering is the need to adopt systematic approaches to assessing and aggregating research outcomes in order...
Pearl Brereton, Barbara A. Kitchenham, David Budge...
Presently, no methods exist that support the creation process of an industry taxonomy within a specific domain. Without such a method, taxonomies remain erroneous, making the deve...
Ivo Hunink, Rene van Erk, Slinger Jansen, Sjaak Br...
The idea of conducting usability tests remotely emerged ten years ago. Since then, it has been studied empirically, and some software organizations employ remote methods. Yet ther...
Henrik Villemann Nielsen, Jan Stage, Morten Sieker...
The replication of experiments is a key undertaking in SE. Successful replications enable a discipline’s body of knowledge to grow, as the results are added to those of earlier ...
Sira Vegas, Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Ana Mar&iacut...
Software testing can be re-formulated as a search problem, hence search algorithms (e.g., Genetic Algorithms) can be used to tackle it. Most of the research so far has been of emp...