Evaluating guidelines for reporting empirical software engineering studies

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-121

  Kitchenham, Barbara ^d   Al Khilidar, Hiyam ^a,c   Babar, Muhammed Ali ^b   Berry, Mike ^a,c   Cox, Karl ^a   Keung, Jacky ^a,c   Kurniawati, Felicia ^a   Staples, Mark ^a   Zhang, He ^a,c   Zhu, Liming ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Checklist based reviews; Controlled experiments; Guidelines; Perspective based reading; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

METADATA; PROBLEM SOLVING; STANDARDS;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; GUIDELINES; PERSPECTIVE BASED READING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 37649000875     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-007-9053-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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