Experiences from using snowballing and database searches in systematic literature studies

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 27-29-April-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Badampudi, Deepika ^a   Wohlin, Claes ^a   Petersen, Kai ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RELIABILITY; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DATABASE SEARCHES; EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY; ITS EFFICIENCIES; LITERATURE STUDIES; REFERENCE LIST; SEARCH STRATEGIES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84961128932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2745802.2745818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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