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Record Nr.

UNISA996465959303316

Titolo

Empirical Methods and Studies in Software Engineering [[electronic resource] ] : Experiences from ESERNET / / edited by Reidar Conradi, Alf Inge Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003

ISBN

3-540-45143-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2003.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 284 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 2765

Disciplina

005.1

Soggetti

Software engineering

Education—Data processing

Computers and civilization

Management information systems

Computer science

Software Engineering

Computers and Education

Computers and Society

Management of Computing and Information Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Method Chapters -- Empirical Research Methods in Software Engineering -- Challenges and Recommendations When Increasing the Realism of Controlled Software Engineering Experiments -- Empirical Studies in ESERNET -- Software Engineering Knowledge Repositories -- Using Empirical Studies during Software Courses -- Practical Experiences in the Design and Conduct of Surveys in Empirical Software Engineering -- Experience Chapters -- Post Mortem – An Assessment of Two Approaches -- Evaluating Checklist-Based and Use-Case-Driven Reading Techniques as Applied to Software Analysis and Design UML Artifacts -- Effectiveness of Code Reading and Functional Testing with Event-Driven Object-Oriented Software -- Experimentation with Usage-Based Reading -- Functional Testing, Structural Testing and



Code Reading: What Fault Type Do They Each Detect? -- COTS Products Characterization: Proposal and Empirical Assessment -- Reuse Based Software Factory -- Appendix and Author Index -- Appendix – Glossary.

Sommario/riassunto

Nowadays, societies crucially depend on high-quality software for a large part of their functionalities and activities. Therefore, software professionals, researchers, managers, and practitioners alike have to competently decide what software technologies and products to choose for which purpose. For various reasons, systematic empirical studies employing strictly scientific methods are hardly practiced in software engineering. Thus there is an unquestioned need for developing improved and better-qualified empirical methods, for their application in practice and for dissemination of the results. This book describes different kinds of empirical studies and methods for performing such studies, e.g., for planning, performing, analyzing, and reporting such studies. Actual studies are presented in detail in various chapters dealing with inspections, testing, object-oriented techniques, and component-based software engineering.