Evidence-Based Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
Search Engine Overlaps: Do they agree or disagree?
REBSE '07 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Realising Evidence-Based Software Engineering
Experiences using systematic review guidelines
Journal of Systems and Software
Developing Search Strategies for Detecting Relevant Experiments for Systematic Reviews
ESEM '07 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Applying Systematic Reviews to Diverse Study Types: An Experience Report
ESEM '07 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Strength of evidence in systematic reviews in software engineering
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering - A systematic literature review
Information and Software Technology
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering - A tertiary study
Information and Software Technology
How Reliable Are Systematic Reviews in Empirical Software Engineering?
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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
Evidence-based software engineering and systematic literature reviews
PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Experiences conducting systematic reviews from novices' perspective
EASE'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
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Context: The use of Systematic Literature Review (SLR) requires expertise and poses many challenges for novice researchers. The experiences of those who have used this research methodology can benefit novice researchers in effectively dealing with these challenges. Objective: The aim of this study is to record the reported experiences of conducting Systematic Literature Reviews, for the benefit of new researchers. Such a review will greatly benefit the researchers wanting to conduct SLR for the very first time. Method: We conducted a tertiary study to gather the experiences published by researchers. Studies that have used the SLR research methodology in software engineering and have implicitly or explicitly reported their experiences are included in this review. Results: Our research has revealed 116 studies relevant to the theme. The data has been extracted by two researchers working independently and conflicts resolved after discussion with third researcher. Findings from these studies highlight Search Strategy, Online Databases, Planning and Data Extraction as the most challenging phases of SLR. Lack of standard terminology in software engineering papers, poor quality of abstracts and problems with search engines are some of the most cited challenges. Conclusion: Further research and guidelines is required to facilitate novice researchers in conducting these phases properly.