Experimentation in software engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Comparing the Effectiveness of Software Testing Strategies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Managing the software process
The software engineering laboratory: an operational software experience factory
ICSE '92 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering
People, Organizations, and Process Improvement
IEEE Software
CMM implementation guide: choreographing software process improvement
CMM implementation guide: choreographing software process improvement
Establishing experience factories at Daimler-Benz: an experience report
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Software technology maturation
ICSE '85 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Software engineering
Understanding and improving technology transfer in software engineering
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on invited articles on top systems and software engineering scholars
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
Applying meta-analytical procedures to software engineering experiments
Journal of Systems and Software
Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach
Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach
A Discipline for Software Engineering
A Discipline for Software Engineering
Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots
Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
An Empirical Evaluation of Three Defect-Detection Techniques
Proceedings of the 5th European Software Engineering Conference
Keynote on "Experimental Software Engineering"
EWSPT '00 Proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on Software Process Technology
A Systematic Review of Theory Use in Software Engineering Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Challenges in enterprise software integration: An industrial study using repertory grids
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Applying empirical software engineering to software architecture: challenges and lessons learned
Empirical Software Engineering
Perceived productivity threats in large agile development projects
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Empirical validation of a requirements engineering process guide
EASE'09 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
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Results of empirical investigations are key input for industrial software process improvement activities. The relevance of an investigation for a given environment, however, depends on the similarities or dissimilarities of the investigation environment compared to the industrial environment which is interested in using a new technology. The optimal (or most relevant) results may be gained when performing the experiment in the industrial environment itself. Unfortunately, this takes place only rarely as experiments in industrial environments are either expensive (when new and old technology are used in parallel) or risky (when only the new technology is used).To overcome this dilemma, we introduced the concept of external experiments, i.e. experiments which are conducted in an environment different from the industrial target environment and which tries to simulate the characteristics of the industrial environment as best as possible. This paper describes this concept in detail, presents a process for identification, conduction and exploitation of such experiments and shows some results from past investigations which used this concept.