Evidence-based software engineering

Kitchenham, Barbara; Dybå, Tore; Jørgensen, Magne

doi:10.1109/icse.2004.1317449

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“…Our initial conceptualization of the survey design was a ''next-generation survey,'' focusing on the evolution and maturity of particular ideas, going beyond the current stateof-the-art in empirical software and requirements engineering following the systematic process laid out by Kitchenham et al [27]. Maturity could be defined by phases similar to those reflected in our paper types (proposal, formalization, implementation, evaluation, etc.…”

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Goal-oriented requirements engineering: an extended systematic mapping study

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Over the last two decades, much attention has been paid to the area of goal-oriented requirements engineering (GORE), where goals are used as a useful conceptualization to elicit, model, and analyze requirements, capturing alternatives and conflicts. Goal modeling has been adapted and applied to many sub-topics within requirements engineering (RE) and beyond, such as agent orientation, aspect orientation, business intelligence, model-driven development, and security. Despite extensive efforts in this field, the RE community lacks a recent, general systematic literature review of the area. In this work, we present a systematic mapping study, covering the 246 top-cited GORE-related conference and journal papers, according to Scopus. Our literature map addresses several research questions: we classify the types of papers (e.g., proposals, formalizations, meta-studies), look at the presence of evaluation, the topics covered (e.g., security, agents, scenarios), frameworks used, venues, citations, author networks, and overall publication numbers. For most questions, we evaluate trends over time. Our findings show a proliferation of papers with new ideas and few citations, with a small number of authors and papers dominating citations; however, there is a slight rise in papers which build upon past work (implementations, integrations, and extensions). We see a rise in papers concerning adaptation/variability/evolution and a slight rise in case studies. Overall, interest in GORE has increased. We use our analysis results to make recommendations concerning future GORE research and make our data publicly available.

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Goal-oriented requirements engineering: an extended systematic mapping study

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“…Current research in empirical SE is the adoption of evidence-based approach following the success of the evidence-based paradigm in medicine during late 80's and early 90's. By analogy with evidence-based medicine, Kitchenham et al [19] define that the Evidence-based Software Engineering (EBSE) should be "to provide the means by which current best evidence from research can be integrated with practical experiment and human values in the decision making process regarding the development and maintenance of software".…”

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Epistemological and Ontological Representation in Software Engineering

Cuadrado-Gallego

Rodríguez

Garre

et al. 2007

Computational Science – ICCS 2007

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Abstract. This paper provides an overview of how empirical research can be a valid approach to improve epistemological foundations and ontological representations in Software Engineering (SE). Despite of all the research done in SE, most of the results have not been yet been stated as laws, theories, hypothesis or conjectures, i.e., from an epistemological point of view. This paper explores such facts and advocates that the use of empirical methods can help to improve this situation. Furthermore, it is also imperative for SE experiments to be planned and executed properly in order to be valid epistemologically. Finally, this paper presents some epistemological and ontological results obtained from empirical research in SE.

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“…With respect to the other general challenges identified we recommend to synthesize evidence with respect to approaches addressing to challenges to identify potential solutions and research gaps, e.g. through systematic reviews used in the evidence-based software engineering paradigm [9], or through mapping studies [14]. It is important to mention that challenges identified in this study that were not mentioned in the related work might also be general.…”

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An exploratory case study of testing in an automotive electrical system release process

Sundmark

Petersen

Larsson

2011

2011 6th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial and Embedded Systems

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Abstract-The release process is a crucial element in the development of software-intensive systems, as it bridges the gap between the development of a system and its operational use. A short release process enables a fast time to market, but also puts high demands on the efficiency of integration and testing, which typically constitue principal release process steps. This paper reports findings from an exploratory industrial case study focusing on system testing in an automotive electrical system release process. We provide a description of how system testing is performed and integrated in the release process in the automotive domain, and identify a set of challenges observed in the studied setting. The case being studied is Scania, a major Swedish automotive company.

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Evidence-based software engineering

Cited by 470 publications

References 11 publications

Goal-oriented requirements engineering: an extended systematic mapping study

Goal-oriented requirements engineering: an extended systematic mapping study

Epistemological and Ontological Representation in Software Engineering

An exploratory case study of testing in an automotive electrical system release process

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