Using a protocol template for case study planning

Authors:
Pearl Brereton;Barbara Kitchenham;David Budgen;Zhi Li
Affiliations:
School of Computing and Mathematics, Keele University, Keele, UK;School of Computing and Mathematics, Keele University, Keele, UK;Department of Computer Science, Durham University, Durham, Science Laboratories, Durham, UK;School of Computing and Mathematics, Keele University, Keele, UK
Venue:
EASE'08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In order to undertake a series of case studies aimed at investigating systematic literature reviews, we have developed a case study protocol template. This paper introduces the template and discusses our experiences of using the template and the resulting case study protocol. We suggest that using our template to prepare a protocol and using the protocol for case study planning can improve the rigour of software engineering case studies.