Demeyer, Serge; Mens, Tom and Wermelinger, Michel
(2001).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1145/602461.602502 |
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Abstract
Case-studies are extremely popular in rapidly evolving research disciplines such as software engineering because they allow for a quick but fair assessment of new techniques. Unfortunately, a proper experimental set-up is rarely the case: all too often case-studies are based on a single small toy-example chosen to favour the technique under study. Such lack of scientific rigor prevents fair evaluation and has disastrous consequences for the credibility of our field. In this paper, we propose to use a representative set of cases as a benchmark for comparing various techniques dealing with software evolution. We hope that this proposal will launch a consensus building process that eventually must lead to a scientifically sound validation method for researchers investigating reverse- and reengineering techniques.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2001 ACM |
| ISBN: | 1-58113-508-4, 978-1-58113-508-4 |
| Keywords: | software evolution; empirical survey; case studies; benchmark |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Research Group: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 41194 |
| Depositing User: | Michel Wermelinger |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2014 15:42 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2018 16:31 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/41194 |
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