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Empirical Research in Software Engineering: A Literature Review

Authors:
Petr Pícha
Přemysl Brada

Keywords: empirical research, literature review, software engineering, history, problems, solutions

Abstract:
Software engineering (SE) and the empirical research in this area have both become a large fields with significant bodies of knowledge as well as methodical problems. Mentions, descriptions and examples of these problems are spread throughout the literature, but only a handful of suggestions and attempts of their rectification are being presented. This paper summarizes the goals and history of the SE field and focuses on the empirical research area within it. It highlights the most frequent problems affecting empirical SE research efforts and their most promising suggested solutions. Both the problems and suggested solutions were collected from a carefully selected sample of research publications. The presented overview should serve as a starting point for researchers or other professionals trying to get the first broad and shallow insight into the context of SE empirical research, as well as a theoretical basis for subsequent research.

Pages: 209 to 214

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-367-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014