Seminar on Enterprise Software 2023/24 spring

Literature on Research Methods

• General literature on research methods in Software Engineering (SE):
  • Shaw M (2002) What makes good research in software engineering? Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer 4(1):1–7. [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10009-002-0083-4]
  • Kitchenham BA, Dyba T, Jørgensen M (2004) Evidence-Based Software Engineering. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '04). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 273-281.
  • Claes Wohlin, Per Runeson, Martin Höst, Magnus C. Ohlsson, Björn Regnell, Anders Wesslén: Experimentation in Software Engineering, Springer 2012. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-29044-2]
  • Easterbrook S, Singer J, Storey MA, Damian D (2008) Selecting empirical methods for software engineering research. In: Shull F, Singer J, Sjøberg DIK (eds) Guide to advanced empirical software engineering, Springer Germany, pp 285–311. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-84800-044-5_11]
  • Klaas-Jan Stol and Brian Fitzgerald. 2018. The ABC of Software Engineering Research. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 27, 3, Article 11 (September 2018), 51 pages. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3241743]
  • Basic Statistics - online textbook
• Design Science in SE:
  • Engström, E., Storey, MA., Runeson, P. et al. (2020) How software engineering research aligns with design science: a review. Empir Software Eng 25, 2630–2660. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-020-09818-7]
• Controlled Experiments in SE:
  • Wohlin C., Runeson P., Höst M., Ohlsson M.C., Regnell B., Wesslén A. (2012) Experiment Process. In: Experimentation in Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29044-2_6]
  • Jedlitschka A., Ciolkowski M., Pfahl D. (2008) Reporting Experiments in Software Engineering. In: Shull F., Singer J., Sjøberg D.I.K. (eds) Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering. Springer, London. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-044-5_8]
• Case Studies in SE:
  • Runeson P, Höst M (2009) Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering. Empirical Software Engineering 14(2):131–164.
• Literature Surveys in SE:
  • Kitchenham, B.A., Charters, S. (2007) Guidelines for performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering (version 2.3). Technical Report, EBSE Technical Report EBSE-2007-01, Keele University and Durham University. Link
  • Short TouTube video by Amina Yonis (18 min) giving a concise overview of the steps of an SLR plus hints for supporting tools: VIDEO
• Mapping Studies in SE:
  • Kai Petersen, Robert Feldt, Shahid Mujtaba, and Michael Mattsson (2008) Systematic mapping studies in software engineering. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE'08). BCS Learning & Development Ltd., Swindon, GBR, 68–77. [https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/EASE2008.8]
  • Kai Petersen, Sairam Vakkalanka, Ludwik Kuzniarz (2015) Guidelines for conducting systematic mapping studies in software engineering: An update. Information and Software Technology, Volume 64, Pages 1-18. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2015.03.007]