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Empirical Methods and Studies in Software Engineering

Experiences from ESERNET

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2765)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Reidar Conradi, Alf Inge Wang
      Pages 1-6
  3. Method Chapters

    1. Empirical Research Methods in Software Engineering

      • Claes Wohlin, Martin Höst, Kennet Henningsson
      Pages 7-23
    2. Challenges and Recommendations When Increasing the Realism of Controlled Software Engineering Experiments

      • Dag I. K. Sjøberg, Bente Anda, Erik Arisholm, Tore DybÃ¥, Magne Jørgensen, Amela Karahasanović et al.
      Pages 24-38
    3. Empirical Studies in ESERNET

      • Toni Sandelin, Matias Vierimaa
      Pages 39-54
    4. Software Engineering Knowledge Repositories

      • Andreas Jedlitschka, Markus Nick
      Pages 55-80
    5. Using Empirical Studies during Software Courses

      • Jeffrey Carver, Letizia Jaccheri, Sandro Morasca, Forrest Shull
      Pages 81-103
    6. Practical Experiences in the Design and Conduct of Surveys in Empirical Software Engineering

      • Marcus Ciolkowski, Oliver Laitenberger, Sira Vegas, Stefan Biffl
      Pages 104-128
  4. Experience Chapters

    1. Post Mortem – An Assessment of Two Approaches

      • Tor StÃ¥lhane, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Geir Kjetil Hanssen, Nils Brede Moe
      Pages 129-141
    2. Evaluating Checklist-Based and Use-Case-Driven Reading Techniques as Applied to Software Analysis and Design UML Artifacts

      • Giovanni Cantone, Luca Colasanti, Zeiad A. Abdulnabi, Anna Lomartire, Giuseppe Calavaro
      Pages 142-165
    3. Effectiveness of Code Reading and Functional Testing with Event-Driven Object-Oriented Software

      • Giovanni Cantone, Zeiad A. Abdulnabi, Anna Lomartire, Giuseppe Calavaro
      Pages 166-192
    4. Experimentation with Usage-Based Reading

      • Thomas Thelin, Magnus Erlansson, Martin Höst, Claes Wohlin
      Pages 193-207
    5. COTS Products Characterization: Proposal and Empirical Assessment

      • Alessandro Bianchi, Danilo Caivano, Reidar Conradi, Letizia Jaccheri, Marco Torchiano, Giuseppe Visaggio
      Pages 233-255
    6. Reuse Based Software Factory

      • Manu Prego
      Pages 256-273
  5. Appendix and Author Index

    1. Appendix – Glossary

      • Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi
      Pages 274-278
  6. Back Matter

About this book

Nowadays, societies crucially depend on high-quality software for a large part of their functionalities and activities. Therefore, software professionals, researchers, managers, and practitioners alike have to competently decide what software technologies and products to choose for which purpose.

For various reasons, systematic empirical studies employing strictly scientific methods are hardly practiced in software engineering. Thus there is an unquestioned need for developing improved and better-qualified empirical methods, for their application in practice and for dissemination of the results.

This book describes different kinds of empirical studies and methods for performing such studies, e.g., for planning, performing, analyzing, and reporting such studies. Actual studies are presented in detail in various chapters dealing with inspections, testing, object-oriented techniques, and component-based software engineering.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

    Reidar Conradi

  • Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Alf Inge Wang

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