A note on rigour and replicability

Authors:
Panos Louridas;Georgios Gousios
Affiliations:
Greek Research and Technology Network S.A. and Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece;Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Venue:
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Year:
2012

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Abstract

As any empirical science, Software Engineering research should strive towards better research practices. Replication is regrettably not a priority for Software Engineering researchers and, moreover, not afforded by many published studies. Here we report our experience from our encounter with a recent paper in a agship Software Engineering conference. Our experience shows that current publication requirements do not guarantee replicability.