An empirical investigation of systematic reviews in software engineering

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 87-96

  Zhang, He ^a   Babar, Muhammad Ali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Evidence based software engineering; Methodology adoption; Systematic (literature) reviews

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EVIDENCE BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; METHODOLOGY ADOPTION; MULTI-METHOD APPROACH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; SYSTEMATIC (LITERATURE) REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC METHODOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84863345565     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/esem.2011.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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