Presenting software engineering results using structured abstracts: A randomised experiment

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 435-468

  Budgen, David ^a   Kitchenham, Barbara A ^b   Charters, Stuart M ^c   Turner, Mark ^b   Brereton, Pearl ^b   Linkman, Stephen G ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Randomised controlled laboratory experiment; Structured abstract

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

CONSISTENT; DO-MAINS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; QUALITY OF INFORMATIONS; RANDOM SELECTIONS; RANDOMISED CONTROLLED LABORATORY EXPERIMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING JOURNALS; STRUCTURED ABSTRACT; STRUCTURED ABSTRACTS;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 55049101188     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9075-7     Document Type: Article

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