Validity concerns in software engineering research

Proceedings of the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research, FoSER 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 411-414

  Wright, Hyrum K ^a   Kim, Miryung ^a   Perry, Dewayne E ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical study; External validity; Open source software

Indexed keywords

DATA SOURCE SELECTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SURVEYS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951601928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882362.1882446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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