Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction (International Series in Software Engineering, Band 6) - Softcover

Wohlin, Claes; Runeson, Per; Höst, Martin; Ohlsson, Magnus C.; Regnell, Björn; Wesslén, Anders

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ISBN 10: 1461370914 ISBN 13: 9781461370918

Verlag: Springer, 2012

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It is my belief that software engineers not only need to know software engineering methods and processes, but that they also should know how to assess them. Conse­ quently, I have taught principles of experimentation and empirical studies as part of the software engineering curriculum. Until now, this meant selecting a text from another discipline, usually psychology, and augmenting it with journal or confer­ ence papers that provide students with software engineering examples of experi­ ments and empirical studies. This book fills an important gap in the software engineering literature: it pro­ vides a concise, comprehensive look at an important aspect of software engineer­ ing: experimental analysis of how well software engineering methods, methodologies, and processes work. Since all of these change so rapidly in our field, it is important to know how to evaluate new ones. This book teaches how to go about doing this and thus is valuable not only for the software engineering stu­ dent, but also for the practicing software engineering professional who will be able to • Evaluate software engineering techniques. • Determine the value (or lack thereof) of claims made about a software engineer­ ing method or process in published studies. Finally, this book serves as a valuable resource for the software engineering researcher.

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CLAES WOHLIN is Professor Emeritus of software engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology. He has been conducting empirical research, together with his PhD students, with industrial partners for 35 years. His research focuses on empirical methods in software engineering, software processes and software quality. He served as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Information and Software Technology for 14 years. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. PER RUNESON is a professor of software engineering at Lund University. He has more than 25 years of experience in conducting empirical research with PhD students, and leading industry-academia collaboration programs, aiming to understand and improve practice. His research interests embrace cross-disciplinary approaches and include empirical studies on software testing and ecosystems for open data and software, in industrial software and AI engineering. He has advanced the research field through methodology guidebooks on experimentation and case studies. MARTIN HÖST is a professor of software engineering at Malmö University, where he is dean of the Faculty of Technology and Society. He has about 30 years of experience in empirical research in software engineering, often conducted in collaboration with industry. His research interests include software quality and open source software, as well as empirical research methods in software engineering research. MAGNUS C. OHLSSON has focused on the development and quality assurance of software for almost 25 years, and today, he is a Quality Strategist and Evangelist at System Verification, specialising in process improvement. He has experience in several different technical areas such as embedded systems, medical devices, mobile network signalling and ERP systems. He is also an appreciated lecturer at different universities and when providing presentations at various conferences. BJÖRN REGNELL is Professor of software engineering at Lund University. He has over 30 years of experience in software engineering with focus on empirical research in software requirements engineering. He served as Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Engineering with focus on quality of graduate level education. He is a member of the editorial board of the Requirements Engineering journal (Springer-Nature). He is also engaged in the governing committee of the Scala open-source programming language. ANDERS WESSLÉN is an expert at Ericsson in Lund. He has more than 20 years of experience working with system development for both mobile phones and radio base stations. His focus is system-wide architectures and future computing platforms.

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Like other sciences and engineering disciplines, software engineering requires a cycle of model building, experimentation, and learning. Experiments are valuable tools for all software engineers who are involved in evaluating and choosing between different methods, techniques, languages and tools. The purpose of Experimentation in Software Engineering is to introduce students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners to empirical studies in software engineering, using controlled experiments. The introduction to experimentation is provided through a process perspective, and the focus is on the steps that we have to go through to perform an experiment. The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides a background of theories and methods used in experimentation. Part II then devotes one chapter to each of the five experiment steps: scoping, planning, execution, analysis, and result presentation. Part III completes the presentation with two examples. Assignments and statistical material are provided in appendixes. Overall the book provides indispensable information regarding empirical studies in particular for experiments, but also for case studies, systematic literature reviews, and surveys. It is a revision of the authors book, which was published in 2000. In addition, substantial new material, e.g. concerning systematic literature reviews and case study research, is introduced. The book is self-contained and it is suitable as a course book in undergraduate or graduate studies where the need for empirical studies in software engineering is stressed. Exercises and assignments are included to combine the more theoretical material with practical aspects. Researchers will also benefit from the book, learning more about how to conduct empirical studies, and likewise practitioners may use it as a cookbook when evaluating new methods or techniques before implementing them in their organization.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1461370914
• ISBN 13: 9781461370918
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
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