The type of evidence produced by empirical software engineers

Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Realising Evidence-Based Software Engineering, REBSE '05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Segal, Judith ^a   Grinyer, Antony ^b   Sharp, Helen ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CSW Group Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

empirical software engineering; evidence; field studies; research taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FIELD STUDIES; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RESEARCH TAXONOMY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS;

RESEARCH; TAXONOMIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954005078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083174.1083176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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