The amount of information in medical publications continues to increase at a tremendous rate. Systematic reviews help to process this growing body of information. They are fundame...
BACKGROUND – the systematic review is becoming a more commonly employed research instrument in empirical software engineering. Before undue reliance is placed on the outcomes of...
Stephen G. MacDonell, Martin J. Shepperd, Barbara ...
In early phases of the software cycle, requirements prioritization necessarily relies on the specified requirements and on predictions of benefit and cost of individual requiremen...
Background: Systematic reviews address a specific clinical question by unbiasedly assessing and analyzing the pertinent literature. Citation screening is a time-consuming and crit...
Byron C. Wallace, Thomas A. Trikalinos, Joseph Lau...
Abstract--For two decades, feature diagrams have been intensively studied as a means to specify variability and pilot configuration in software product line engineering. Surprising...
Regression testing is the verification that previously functioning software remains after a change. In this paper we report on a systematic review of empirical evaluations of regr...
Systematic reviews are only as good as the evidence they are based on. It is important, therefore, that users of systematic reviews know how much confidence they can place in the ...
Systematic reviews are one of the key building blocks of evidence-based software engineering. Current guidelines for such reviews are, for a large part, based on standard meta-ana...
Active learning (AL) is an increasingly popular strategy for mitigating the amount of labeled data required to train classifiers, thereby reducing annotator effort. We describe ...
Byron C. Wallace, Kevin Small, Carla E. Brodley, T...