Identifying relevant studies in software engineering

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 625-637

  Zhang, He ^a   Babar, Muhammad Ali ^b   Tell, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Evidence based software engineering; Quasi gold standard; Search strategy; Systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL STEPS; ERROR PRONES; EVIDENCE BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; GOLD STANDARDS; OPTIMAL SEARCH STRATEGY; QUASI-GOLD STANDARD; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; RESEARCH TOPICS; SEARCH PERFORMANCE; SEARCH PROCESS; SEARCH STEPS; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SEARCH STRATEGY; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; GOLD; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STANDARDS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 79953708792     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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