Empirical Methods and Studies in Software Engineering

Experiences from ESERNET

• Author(s): Reidar Conradi,
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• Pages: 278
• ISBN_10: 3540406727
  ISBN_13: 9783540406723
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Information Management , Business & Economics / Business Mathematics , Computers / Computer Architecture , Computers / Information Technology , Computers / Management Information Systems , Computers / Programming / General , Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General , Computers / Social Aspects , Education / Computers & Technology ,

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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.