For several decades there has been a debate in the computing sciences about the relative roles of design and empirical research, and about the contribution of design and research ...
Background: The number of reported empirical studies of Open Source Software (OSS) has continuously been increasing. However, there has been no effort to systematically review the ...
The collection and use of evidence in Software Engineering practice and research are essential elements in the development of the discipline. This paper discusses the need for evi...
Ray Dawson, Phil Bones, Briony J. Oates, Pearl Bre...
Our activities in software engineering typically fall into one of three categories, (1) to invent new phenomena, (2) to understand existing phenomena, and (3) to facilitate inspir...
Even though software is developed by humans, research in software engineering primarily focuses on the technologies, methods and processes they use while disregarding the importan...
Robert Feldt, Richard Torkar, Lefteris Angelis, Ma...