A method for managing evidential reasoning in a hierarchical hypothesis space
Artificial Intelligence
Applying meta-analytical procedures to software engineering experiments
Journal of Systems and Software
A Systems Perspective on Software Process Improvement
PROFES '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
How much Information is Needed for Usage-Based Reading? " A Series of Experiments
ISESE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
An Experimental Comparison of Usage-Based and Checklist-Based Reading
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Replicated Experiment of Usage-Based and Checklist-Based Reading
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
Evidence-Based Software Engineering for Practitioners
IEEE Software
The type of evidence produced by empirical software engineers
REBSE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Realising evidence-based software engineering
Software engineering practice versus evidence-based software engineering research
REBSE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Realising evidence-based software engineering
Empirical studies of agile software development: A systematic review
Information and Software Technology
Strength of evidence in systematic reviews in software engineering
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Improving the effectiveness of root cause analysis in post mortem analysis: A controlled experiment
Information and Software Technology
Objectivity in Research: Challenges from the Evidence-Based Paradigm
ASWEC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Australian Software Engineering Conference
A systematic review on regression test selection techniques
Information and Software Technology
Postmortem reviews: purpose and approaches in software engineering
Information and Software Technology
Six years of systematic literature reviews in software engineering: An updated tertiary study
Information and Software Technology
Recommended Steps for Thematic Synthesis in Software Engineering
ESEM '11 Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
The Structure of Design Theories, and an Analysis of their Use in Software Engineering Experiments
ESEM '11 Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
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An adequate representation and a feasible aggregation procedure of evidence represents a challenging problem in many disciplines. The right representation can help scientists discuss and present the results of their findings and, if it is simple enough, it can be useful for practitioners to base their decisions on improvement implementations. The aggregation strengthens confidence in comparison to single evidence and is an important contribution to the body of knowledge. In this paper, we present a preliminary proposal to use empirically-based theories and belief functions as a means to represent and aggregate evidence. By having evidence explained by the same theory, we used belief functions to combine them in a way that the theory propositions (cause-effect values) result from combined evidence. We suggest this can be an useful way to obtain a good estimate of multiple evidence combination. In addition, we indicate its possible usefulness for practitioners to formalize and reuse their experiences. A real-case application of the approach is presented by formulating a theory for Usage-Based Reading inspection technique and aggregating the evidence acquired in three related empirical studies. This application indicated that the approach can give compatible results with the aggregated evidence.