Experimentation in Software Engineering

• Main Authors: Wohlin, Claes (Author), Runeson, Per (Author), Höst, Martin (Author), Ohlsson, Magnus C. (Author), Regnell, Björn (Author), Wesslén, Anders (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

Like other sciences and engineering disciplines, software engineering requires a cycle of model building, experimentation, and learning. Experiments are valuable tools for all software engineers who are involved in evaluating and choosing between different methods, techniques, languages and tools. T...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Background
• Introduction
• Empirical Strategies
• Measurement
• Systematic Literature Reviews
• Case Studies
• Experiment Process
• Part II Steps in the Experiment Process
• Scoping
• Planning
• Operation
• Analysis and Interpretation
• Presentation and Package
• Part III Example Experiments
• Experiment Process Illustration
• Are the Perspectives Really Different?
• Appendices
• Exercises
• Statistical Tables.