Six years of systematic literature reviews in software engineering: An updated tertiary study

Silva, Fábio Q. B. da; Santos, André L. M.; Soares, Sérgio; França, A. César C.; Monteiro, Cleviton V. F.; Maciel, Felipe Farias

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2011.04.004

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“…This is demonstrated by three 'tertiary studies' of published SLRs [15], [16], [17], and in the rest of this paper, we will refer to these as TS1, TS2 and TS3 respectively. Two other relevant developments are:…”

Section: Recent Progress With Ebsementioning

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What scope is there for adopting evidence-informed teaching in SE?

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Drummond

Brereton

et al. 2012

2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. To examine the outcomes available from the use of EvidenceBased Software Engineering (EBSE) practices, so as to identify where these can provide support for, and inform, teaching activities. Method: We have examined all known secondary studies published up to the end of 2009, together with those published in major journals to mid-2011, and identified where these provide practical results that are relevant to student needs. Results: Starting with 145 candidate systematic literature reviews (SLRs), we were able to identify and classify potentially useful teaching material from 43 of them. Conclusions: EBSE can potentially lend authority to our teaching, although the coverage of key topics is uneven. Additionally, mapping studies can provide support for research-led teaching.

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Section: Recent Progress With Ebsementioning

confidence: 87%

What scope is there for adopting evidence-informed teaching in SE?

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Drummond

Brereton

et al. 2012

2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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“…Moreover, some authors suggest that the software engineering research community is starting to adopt SLRs consistently as a research method [5]. However, the majority of SLRs do not evaluate the quality of primary studies and fail to provide guidelines for practitioners, thus decreasing their potential impact on software engineering practice.…”

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A survey on business processes management suites

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Computer Standards & Interfaces

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“…When we compared the papers we selected with those found in previous tertiary SLR studies that included GSD research [6,11,12] we found that we had not missed any appropriate papers. We reference the studies included in our research and listed in Table 1 with a study number, e.g., [S12].…”

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Systematic Literature Reviews

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Empirical Research in Software Engineering

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Context: Global software development (GSD) projects are often large-scale and, as they tend to be complex, have an increased risk of failure. Objective: We wish to identify what risk mitigation advice is provided to organizations in order to increase the likelihood of GSD project success. Method: We extend an earlier tertiary systematic review (SLR) in GSD to extract data from the SLR studies identified in order to discover: 1) what advice is provided to practitioners to increase the chances of project success, 2) what is the strength of the advice, and 3) to whom is the advice addressed. Results: We found 428 advice items that we categorized under four major headings: outsourcing rationale, software development, human resources, and project management. Most of the suggestions were related to agile methods (16%) and communication and collaboration (13%).Conclusions: The majority of our SLRs focussed on mapping the research rather than providing guidance to industry. Suggestions are mainly for vendor project managers and vendor practitioners. There is low empirical support for most of the advice provided.

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Six years of systematic literature reviews in software engineering: An updated tertiary study

Cited by 137 publications

References 52 publications

What scope is there for adopting evidence-informed teaching in SE?

What scope is there for adopting evidence-informed teaching in SE?

A survey on business processes management suites

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