21st Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training Seeds of Evidence: Integrating Evidence-Based Software Engineering

With increasing interest in Evidence-Based Software Engineering (EBSE), software engi neering faculty face the challenge of educating future researchers and industry practitioners regarding the generation and use of EBSE results. We propose development and population of a community-driven web database containing summaries of EBSE studies. We present motivations for inclusion of these activities in a software engineering course, and address the particular appeal of a community-driven web database to students who have grown up in the Internet generation. We present our experience with integrating these activities into a graduate software engineering course, and report student and industry practitioner assess ments of the resulting artifacts. 1: Introduction to EBSE Software developers are known for adopting new technologies and practices based solely on their novelty, promise, or anecdotal evidence. Evidence-based software engineering (EBSE), on the other hand, endeavors to produce a body of documented experiences that might inform software practice adoption decisions