The value of mapping studies – A participant-observer case study

14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kitchenham, Barbara A ^a   Budgen, David ^b   Brereton, O Pearl ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

case study; mapping studies; systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CASE-STUDIES; EVIDENCE BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; HIGH QUALITY; INFORMATICS; MAPPING STUDIES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SAVES TIME; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW;

MAPPING;

EID: 84867519884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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