Systematic literature reviews in software engineering – A tertiary study

Kitchenham, Barbara; Pretorius, Rialette; Budgen, David; Brereton, O. P.; Turner, Mark; Niazi, Mahmood; Linkman, Stephen

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2010.03.006

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“…This methodology may be applied to the two main existing types of systematic literature studies, namely systematic literature reviews (SLR) [10] and systematic mappings [11]. Whilst SLRs investigate in detail some insightful research question, a systematic mapping is a method to review, classify, and structure papers related to a specific topic.…”

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Quality models for web services: A systematic mapping

Oriol

Marco

Franch

2014

Information and Software Technology

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Context: Quality of Service (QoS) is a major issue in various web service related activities. Quality models have been proposed as the engineering artefact to provide a common framework of understanding for QoS, by defining the quality factors that apply to web service usage. Objective: The goal of this study is to evaluate the current state of the art of the proposed quality models for web services, specifically: (1) which are these proposals and how are they related; (2) what are their structural characteristics; (3) what quality factors are the most and least addressed; and (4) what are their most consolidated definitions. Method: We have conducted a systematic mapping by defining a robust protocol that combines automatic and manual searches from different sources. We used a rigorous method to elicitate the keywords from the research questions and a selection criteria to retrieve the final papers to evaluate. We have adopted the ISO/IEC 25010 standard to articulate our analysis. Results: We have evaluated 47 different quality models from 65 papers that fulfilled the selection criteria. By analyzing in depth these quality models, we have: 1) distributed the proposals along the time dimension and identified their relationships; 2) analysed their size (visualizing the number of nodes and levels) and definition coverage (as indicator of quality of the proposals); 3) quantified the coverage of the different ISO/IEC 25010 quality factors by the proposals; 4) identified the quality factors that appeared in at least 30% of the surveyed proposals and provided the most consolidated definitions for them. Conclusions: We believe that this panoramic view on the anatomy of the quality models for web services may be a good reference for prospective researchers and practitioners in the field and especially may help avoiding the definition of new proposals that do not align with current research.

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Quality models for web services: A systematic mapping

Oriol

Marco

Franch

2014

Information and Software Technology

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“…For the area of software engineering, Kitchenham was one of the first, who described a structured literature review process [1]. Over the years this inital process was extended and improved by Kitchenham herself and others [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8].…”

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“…And there are also different types of literature reviews, which can serve [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] the different goals. Fig.…”

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“…Fig. 1 shows a condensed view of findings and statements from different publications in the field of systematic literature reviews in software engineering [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. The overall reason to do any kind of literature research is Information Gain.…”

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“…This approach utilizes the extensive research of Kitchenham et al [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] for structured literature reviews. We apply Kitchenham's methods to a special ontology, the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) of the EU project Network of Excellence (NoE) on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and Systems (NESSoS) 1 .…”

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Ontology-Based Identification of Research Gaps and Immature Research Areas

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Abstract.Researchers often have to understand new knowledge areas, and identify research gaps and immature areas in them. They have to understand and link numerous publications to achieve this goal. This is difficult, because natural language has to be analyzed in the publications, and implicit relations between them have to be discovered. We propose to utilize the structuring possibilities of ontologies to make the relations between publications, knowledge objects (e.g., methods, tools, notations), and knowledge areas explicit. Furthermore, we use Kitchenham's work on structured literature reviews and apply it to the ontology. We formalize relations between objects in the ontology using Codd's relational algebra to support different kinds of literature research. These formal expressions are implemented as ontology queries. Thus, we implement an immature research area analysis and research gap identification mechanism. The ontology and its relations are implemented based on the Semantic MediaWiki+ platform.

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Systematic literature reviews in software engineering – A tertiary study

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Quality models for web services: A systematic mapping

Quality models for web services: A systematic mapping

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