Description: Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering

Dr. Forrest Shull, division director for Measurement and Knowledge Management at CESE, has co-edited a book on methods for empirical software engineering research. This reference book includes chapters from some of the top international empirical software engineering researchers and focuses on the practical knowledge necessary for conducting, reporting and using empirical methods in software engineering. Part 1, Research Methods and Techniques, examines the proper use of various strategies for collecting and analysing data, and the uses for which those strategies are most appropriate. Part 2, Practical Foundations, provides a discussion of several important global issues that need to be considered from the very beginning of research planning. Finally, Part 3, Knowledge Creation offers insight on using a set of disparate studies to provide useful decision support. The book presents reference material with concrete software engineering examples. It describes some methods that are less often used in the field, providing less conventional but still rigorous and useful ways of collecting data, as well as supplying detailed information on topics (such as surveys) that often contain methodological errors. The book was co-edited with Dr. Janice Singer, who heads the Human Computer Interaction program at the National Research Council, Canada, and Dr. Dag Sjøberg, research director of the software engineering group of the Simula Research Laboratory, Norway.


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