Developing search strategies for detecting relevant experiments

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 513-539

  Dieste, Oscar ^a   Grimán, Anna ^b   Juristo, Natalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Controlled experiment; Evidence based software engineering; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EVIDENCE BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EVIDENCE-BASED; RECALL AND PRECISION; REPORTING STANDARDS; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 72449174935     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9091-7     Document Type: Article

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