INTRODUCTION/MOTIVATION

Mandatory reading

V. R. Basili, “The role of experimentation in software engineering: past, current, and future”, Proc. 18th International Conference on Software Engineering, 1996, pp. 442-449.

W. F. Tichy, “Should computer scientists experiment more?”, IEEE Computer, Vol. 31, No. 5, 1998, pp. 32-40.

 

 

EMPIRCAL STUDIES: SURVEYS, CASE STUDIES, AND EXPERIMENTS

 

Mandatory reading

 

Surveys

B. Kitchenham and S. L. Pfleeger, Personal Opinion Surveys, F. Shull et al (eds.), Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering, Springer 2008, pp. 63-92.

 

Case Studies

B. Kitchenham, L. Plckard, and S. L. Pfleeger, Case Studies for Method and Tool Evaluation, IEEE Software, July 1995, pp. 52-62.

 

Experiments

Chapters 4, 5, 6 (6.1-6.4) and 7 from the book Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction.

 

Optional reading

 

S. L. Pfleeger, Design and analysis in software engineering: Part 1: The language of case studies and formal experiments, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1994, pp. 16-20.

 

S. L. Pfleeger, Experimental design and analysis in software engineering: Part 2: How to set up and experiment, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1995, pp. 22-26.