Lessons learned from evaluating a checklist for reporting experimental and observational research

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 157-160

  Wieringa, Roel ^a   Condori Fernandez, Nelly ^a   Daneva, Maya ^a   Mutschler, Bela ^b   Pastor, Oscar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES RAVENSBURG WEINGARTEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Experimental and observational research; Unified checklist

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE CONSTRUCTION; OBSERVATIONAL RESEARCH; UNIFIED CHECKLIST;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84867562765     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2372251.2372279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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