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  title info:
    title: Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering
  name:
    name part: Shull, Forrest.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Singer, Janice.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sjøberg, Dag I. K.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 388 p. online resource.
  abstract: Empirical studies have become an integral element of software engineering research and practice. This unique text/reference includes chapters from some of the top international empirical software engineering researchers and focuses on the practical knowledge necessary for conducting, reporting and using empirical methods in software engineering. Part 1, ‘Research Methods and Techniques’, examines the proper use of various strategies for collecting and analysing data, and the uses for which those strategies are most appropriate. Part 2, ‘Practical Foundations’, provides a discussion of several important global issues that need to be considered from the very beginning of research planning. Finally, ‘Knowledge Creation’ offers insight on using a set of disparate studies to provide useful decision support. Topics and features: • Offers information across a range of techniques, methods, and qualitative and quantitative issues, providing a toolkit for the reader that is applicable across the diversity of software development contexts • Presents reference material with concrete software engineering examples • Provides guidance on how to design, conduct, analyse, interpret and report empirical studies, taking into account the common difficulties and challenges encountered in the field • Arms researchers with the information necessary to avoid fundamental risks • Tackles appropriate techniques for addressing disparate studies – ensuring the relevance of empirical software engineering, and showing its practical impact • Describes methods that are less often used in the field, providing less conventional but still rigorous and useful ways of collecting data • Supplies detailed information on topics (such as surveys) that often contain methodological errors This broad-ranging, practical guide will prove an invaluable and useful reference for practising software engineers and researchers. In addition, it will be suitable for graduate students studying empirical methods in softwa…
  table of contents: Research Methods and Techniques -- Software Engineering Data Collection for Field Studies -- Qualitative Methods -- Personal Opinion Surveys -- The Focus Group Method as an Empirical Tool in Software Engineering -- Simulation Methods -- Practical Foundations -- Statistical Methods and Measurement -- Missing Data in Software Engineering -- Reporting Experiments in Software Engineering -- A Practical Guide to Ethical Research Involving Humans -- The Management of University–Industry Collaborations Involving Empirical Studies of Software Enginee -- Knowledge Creation -- Selecting Empirical Methods for Software Engineering Research -- Building Theories in Software Engineering -- Building Theories from Multiple Evidence Sources -- Replication's Role in Software Engineering.
  note: edited by Forrest Shull, Janice Singer, Dag I. K. Sjøberg.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Computer system failures
  subject:
    topic: Software engineering
  subject:
    topic: User interfaces (Computer systems)
  subject:
    topic: Management information systems
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
  subject:
    topic: Software Engineering
  subject:
    topic: System Performance and Evaluation
  subject:
    topic: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
  subject:
    topic: Management of Computing and Information Systems
  classification: QA76.758
  classification: 005.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
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