The Future of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research

By Dag I.K. Sjøberg, Tore Dybå, Magne Jørgensen. Future of Software Engineering (FOSE '07), 2007

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A method for evaluating rigor and industrial relevance of technology evaluations (2011, background): “Rigor refers to both how an evaluation is performed and how it is reported.”
Research synthesis in software engineering: A tertiary study (2011, methodology): “Closely related issues, therefore, are the evaluation of the quality of primary studies [53], the decisions of which studies should be included, and how the evidence should be weighted according to quality and suitability for the SR.”
Evaluation and Measurement of Software Process Improvement—A Systematic Literature Review (2012, result): “The result of QA3 confirms the observation in [98] that in empirical studies the scope of validity is scarcely discussed.”
Empirical studies of agile software development: A systematic review (2008, unknown): “In [58], Sjøberg et al.”