Systematic reviews are only as good as the evidence they are based on. It is important,
therefore, that users of systematic reviews know how much confidence they can place in the …

Agile approaches tend to focus solely on scoping and simplicity rather than on problem
solving and discovery. This hampers the development of innovative solutions. Additionally …

Based on their own experiences of in-depth case studies of software projects in international
corporations, in this book the authors present detailed practical guidelines on the …

Case study is a suitable research methodology for software engineering research since it
studies contemporary phenomena in its natural context. However, the understanding of what …

This textbook, which has become the leading source for empirical software engineering
research through its earlier editions, provides an in-depth introduction to experimentation in …

Empirical methods have grown common in software engineering, but there is no consensus
on how to apply them properly. Is practical relevance key? Do internally valid studies have …

Over the past decade with the rise of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) field, the
modelling of defects for large and long-lived systems has become one of the most common …

One of the goals of software engineering research is to achieve generality: Are the
phenomena found in a few projects reflective of others? Will a technique perform as well on …

Software-product-line engineering aims at the development of variable and reusable
software systems. In practice, software product lines are often implemented with …

While performing regression testing, an appropriate choice for test case ordering allows the
tester to early discover faults in source code. To this end, test case prioritization techniques …