4 papers
Practitioner-generated blog posts as evidence for software engineering research: attitudinal survey and preliminary checklist
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams
Background: Blog posts are frequently used by software practitioners to share information about their practice. Blog posts therefore provide a potential source of evidence for soft…
Retrieving and mining professional experience of software practice from grey literature: an exploratory review
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams, Vahid Garousi +1
Background: Retrieving and mining practitioners' self--reports of their professional experience of software practice could provide valuable evidence for research. We are, however,…
Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping
Vahid Garousi, Austen Rainer, Per Lauvås +1
Context: With the rising complexity and scale of software systems, there is an ever-increasing demand for sophisticated and cost-effective software testing. To meet such a demand,…
Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research
Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, Mika V. Mäntylä +1
Researchers generally place the most trust in peer-reviewed, published information, such as journals and conference papers. By contrast, software engineering (SE) practitioners typ…