Synthesizing evidence in software engineering research

ESEM 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cruzes, Daniela S ^a   Dybå, Tore ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

evidence based software engineering; mixed methods; qualitative; quantitative; research synthesis; systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; MIXED METHOD; QUALITATIVE; QUANTITATIVE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 78149245463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1852786.1852788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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