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Use and Misuse of the Term Experiment in Mining Software Repositories Research
Claudia Ayala, Burak Turhan, Xavier Franch +1
The significant momentum and importance of Mining Software Repositories (MSR) in Software Engineering (SE) has fostered new opportunities and challenges for extensive empirical res…
Publication Bias: A Detailed Analysis of Experiments Published in ESEM
Rolando P. Reyes, Óscar Dieste, Efraín R. Fonseca C. +1
Background: Publication bias is the failure to publish the results of a study based on the direction or strength of the study findings. The existence of publication bias is firmly…
A Family of Experiments on Test-Driven Development
Adrian Santos, Sira Vegas, Oscar Dieste +18
Context: Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile software development approach that has been widely claimed to improve software quality. However, the extent to which TDD improves…
Comparing the Results of Replications in Software Engineering
Adrian Santos, Sira Vegas, Markku Oivo +1
Context: It has been argued that software engineering replications are useful for verifying the results of previous experiments. However, it has not yet been agreed how to check wh…
Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research
Paul Ralph, Nauman bin Ali, Sebastian Baltes +39
Empirical Standards are natural-language models of a scientific community's expectations for a specific kind of study (e.g. a questionnaire survey). The ACM SIGSOFT Paper and Peer…
A Procedure and Guidelines for Analyzing Groups of Software Engineering Replications
Adrian Santos, Sira Vegas, Markku Oivo +1
Context: Researchers from different groups and institutions are collaborating on building groups of experiments by means of replication (i.e., conducting groups of replications). D…