Investigating the applicability of the evidence-based paradigm to software engineering

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 7-13

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

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evidence based; structured abstracts; systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DOMAIN; STRUCTURED ABSTRACT; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; TWO DOMAINS;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 77953487848     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1137661.1137665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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