Practical experiences in the design and conduct of surveys in empirical software engineering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2765, Issue , 2003, Pages 104-128

  Ciolkowski, Marcus ^a   Laitenberger, Oliver ^b   Vegas, Sira ^c   Biffl, Stefan ^d  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b Droege and Comp GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EXTERNAL VALIDITIES; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; LARGE SCALE SURVEYS; LITERATURE SURVEY; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE;

SURVEYS;

EID: 35248857055     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45143-3_7     Document Type: Review

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