Basics of Software Engineering Experimentation

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Experimentation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno

      Pages 3-22

   3. Why Experiment?

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      Pages 23-44

   4. How to Experiment

      • Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno

      Pages 45-54

3. Designing Experiments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Basic Notions of Experimental Design

      • Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno

      Pages 57-81

   3. Experimental Design

      • Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno

      Pages 83-121

4. Analysing the Experimental Data

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Basic Notions of Data Analysis

      • Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno

      Pages 125-152

   3. Which is the Better of Two Alternatives?

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      Pages 153-174

   4. Which of K Alternatives is the Best?

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      Pages 175-202

   5. Experiments with Undesired Variations

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      Pages 203-234

   6. Best Alternatives for More than One Variable

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      Pages 235-291

   7. Experiments with Incomparable Factor Alternatives

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      Pages 293-298

   8. Fewer Experiments

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      Pages 299-311

   9. Several Desired and Undesired Variations

      • Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno

      Pages 313-322

   10. Non-Parametric Analysis Methods

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       Pages 323-335

   11. How Many Times Should an Experiment be Replicated?

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       Pages 337-346

5. Conclusions

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      Pages 347-347

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Basics of Software Engineering Experimentation is a practical guide to experimentation in a field which has long been underpinned by suppositions, assumptions, speculations and beliefs. It demonstrates to software engineers how Experimental Design and Analysis can be used to validate their beliefs and ideas. The book does not assume its readers have an in-depth knowledge of mathematics, specifying the conceptual essence of the techniques to use in the design and analysis of experiments and keeping the mathematical calculations clear and simple. Basics of Software Engineering Experimentation is practically oriented and is specially written for software engineers, all the examples being based on real and fictitious software engineering experiments.

• Mathematica
• data analysis
• design
• software
• software engineering

`If you are a researcher, you should master the approaches to empirical software engineering described by Juristo and Moreno.....If you are a practitioner, the advice in this book will enable you to read and assess the studies you find in your journals and at your conferences.....if you are an educator, this book will help you to guide your students in understanding that software engineering is far more than simply having a good technology idea and trying it out on a project.'
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Systems/Software, Inc.

• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

  Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno

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