Abstract Context: Experiments are commonplace in software engineering (SE). Still, two main limitations impact their suitability to assess the effectiveness of SE treatments (i.e., methods, processes, and tools): (1) their results are restricted to the configuration of the experimental settings, and (2) their results may be unreliable due to the low number of subjects typically participating. With the aim of overcoming the previous weaknesses, SE researchers are collaborating towards the construction of groups of experiments by means of replication (i.e., conducting families of experiments). Disparate aggregation techniques are being applied to aggregate experiments’ results within families. Objective: Understanding the limitations of indi...
Current meta-analysis-based procedures for aggregating experimental studies borrowed from other bran...
Context: Researchers perform experiments to check their proposals under controlled conditions. Thus,...
peer-reviewedThis paper outlines the needs for careful empirical-design choices during the study of ...
Abstract Context: Families of experiments (i.e., groups of experiments with the same goal) are on t...
Abstract Context: Researchers from different groups and institutions are collaborating on building ...
Experimentation in software engineering is difficult. One reason is that there are a large number of...
Context: The world is increasingly reliant on software and therefore to speed up development process...
Experimentation in software engineering is necessary but difficult. One reason is that there are a l...
Abstract Context: Researchers from different groups and institutions are collaborating towards the ...
Controlled experiments are an important empirical method to generate theories. Many software enginee...
Experimental software engineering includes several processes, the most representative being run exp...
The aggregation of studies is of growing interest for the Empirical Software Engineering community, ...
The classroom is a valuable resource for conducting software engineering experiments. However, coord...
Experimentation in software engineering is important but difficult. One reason it is so difficult is...
Context Previous studies have raised concerns about the analysis and meta-analysis of crossover exp...
Current meta-analysis-based procedures for aggregating experimental studies borrowed from other bran...
Context: Researchers perform experiments to check their proposals under controlled conditions. Thus,...
peer-reviewedThis paper outlines the needs for careful empirical-design choices during the study of ...
Abstract Context: Families of experiments (i.e., groups of experiments with the same goal) are on t...
Abstract Context: Researchers from different groups and institutions are collaborating on building ...
Experimentation in software engineering is difficult. One reason is that there are a large number of...
Context: The world is increasingly reliant on software and therefore to speed up development process...
Experimentation in software engineering is necessary but difficult. One reason is that there are a l...
Abstract Context: Researchers from different groups and institutions are collaborating towards the ...
Controlled experiments are an important empirical method to generate theories. Many software enginee...
Experimental software engineering includes several processes, the most representative being run exp...
The aggregation of studies is of growing interest for the Empirical Software Engineering community, ...
The classroom is a valuable resource for conducting software engineering experiments. However, coord...
Experimentation in software engineering is important but difficult. One reason it is so difficult is...
Context Previous studies have raised concerns about the analysis and meta-analysis of crossover exp...
Current meta-analysis-based procedures for aggregating experimental studies borrowed from other bran...
Context: Researchers perform experiments to check their proposals under controlled conditions. Thus,...
peer-reviewedThis paper outlines the needs for careful empirical-design choices during the study of ...