Reporting experiments in software engineering

Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 201-228

  Jedlitschka, Andreas ^a   Ciolkowski, Marcus ^a   Pfahl, Dietmar ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 84890169938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-044-5_8     Document Type: Chapter

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