Reporting guidelines for controlled experiments in software engineering

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 95-104

  Jedlitschka, Andreas ^a   Pfahl, Dietmar ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION;

GUIDELINE DEVELOPMENT; GUIDELINES; RESEARCH COMMUNITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749066130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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