Worldviews, research methods, and their relationship to validity in empirical software engineering research

Proceedings - Joint Conference of the 23rd International Workshop on Software Measurement and the 8th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, IWSM-MENSURA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 81-89

  Petersen, Kai ^a   Gencel, Cigdem ^b  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; MULTIPLE METHODS; RESEARCH STUDIES; WORLD VIEWS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84893550304     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWSM-Mensura.2013.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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