The type of evidence produced by empirical software engineers

Segal, Judith; Grinyer, Antony and Sharp, Helen (2005). The type of evidence produced by empirical software engineers. In: ed. Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Realising evidence-based software engineering. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press, pp. 1–4.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1083174.1083176

Abstract

This paper reports on the research published between the years 1997 and 2003 inclusive in the journal of Empirical Software Engineering, drawing on the taxonomy developed by Glass et al. in [3]. We found that the research was somewhat narrow in topic with about half the papers focusing on measurement/metrics, review and inspection; that researchers were almost as interested in formulating as in evaluating; that hypothesis testing and laboratory experiments dominated evaluations; that research was not very likely to focus on people and extremely unlikely to refer to other disciplines. We discuss our findings in the context of making empirical software engineering more relevant to practitioners.

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• Item ORO ID
• 2922
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-59593-121-X, 978-1-59593-121-4
• Extra Information
• This event took place in St Louis, Missouri, USA on 17 May 2005.
• Keywords
• Empirical software engineering; research taxonomy; evidence; field studies
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
• Research Group
• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
• Depositing User
• Judith Segal