Lessons from applying the systematic literature review process within the software engineering domain

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 571-583

  Brereton, Pearl ^a   Kitchenham, Barbara A ^a   Budgen, David ^b   Turner, Mark ^a   Khalil, Mohamed ^c  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Empirical software engineering; Systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); QUALITY CONTROL;

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; REVIEW PROTOCOLS; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33847286844     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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