The structure of design theories, and an analysis of their use in software engineering experiments

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 295-304

  Wieringa, Roel ^a   Daneva, Maya ^a   Condori Fernandez, Nelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Architectural theories; Generalization; Research methodology

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL THEORY; BACKGROUND THEORY; CONTEXT SENSITIVE; DESIGN THEORY; GENERALIZATION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84858710781     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/esem.2011.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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