Preliminary guidelines for empirical research in software engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Comments on "Formal Methods Application: An Empirical Tale of Software Development"
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Response to "Comments on 'Formal Methods Application: An Empirical Tale of Software Development'"
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An analysis of research in computing disciplines
Communications of the ACM - Wireless sensor networks
Evidence-Based Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Organising Evidence to Support Software Engineering Practice
STEP '03 Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice
Realising evidence-based software engineering a report from the workshop held at ICSE 2005
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Protocol analysis: a neglected practice
Communications of the ACM - Next-generation cyber forensics
Researching Information Systems and Computing
Researching Information Systems and Computing
Journal of Systems and Software
Software engineering article types: An analysis of the literature
Journal of Systems and Software
Action research use in software engineering: An initial survey
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Empirical software engineering issues: critical assessment and future directions
A follow-up empirical evaluation of evidence based software engineering by undergraduate students
EASE'08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
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Context: The success of the evidence-based paradigm in other domains, especially medicine, has raised the question of how this might be employed in software engineering.Objectives: To report the research we are doing to evaluate problems associated with adopting the evidence-based paradigm in software engineering and identifying strategies to address these problems.Method: Currently the experimental paradigms used in a selected set of domains are being examined along with the experimental protocols that they employ. Our aim is to identify those domains that have generally similar characteristics to software engineering and to study the strategies that they employ to overcome the lack of rigorous empirical protocols. We are also undertaking a series of systematic literature reviews to identify the factors that may limit their applicability in the software engineering domain.Conclusions: We have identified two domains that experience problems with experimental protocols that are similar to those occurring for software engineering, and will investigate these further to assess whether the approaches used to aggregate evidence in these domains can be adapted for use in software engineering. Our experiences from performing systematic literature reviews are positive, but reveal infrastructure problems caused by poor indexing of the literature.