Title
An Analysis of Tool-Based Research in Software Engineering
Abstract
Many research approaches in software engineering propose models or extensions to existing models. This includes system models, such as UML models, and project management artifacts, such as bug reports or tasks. For evaluating a research approach these models have to be implemented. Existing tools often lack the required extensibility and do not support data collection and analysis. Therefore, many researchers have to spend significant effort on the implementation. In this paper, we identify common requirements for a platform to build research tools on and we evaluate them based on potential use for recent publications. To evaluate the relevancy of the requirements we reviewed 274 research papers from the software engineering category of two major conferences over the last two years. We found 38 research approaches among those that would have benefited from a common platform with the presented requirements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/COMPSAC.2010.13
COMPSAC
Keywords
Field
DocType
data collection,common requirement,tool-based research,uml model,bug report,research paper,software engineering category,common platform,research tool,software engineering,research approach,data analysis,eclipse,computer aided software engineering,collaboration,system model,case tool,system modeling,platform,unified modeling language
Data collection,Unified Modeling Language,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Computer science,Requirements analysis,Computer-aided software engineering,Open source software,Extensibility,System model,Project management
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
22
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonas Helming11239.03
Maximilian Koegel214210.22
Hoda Naguib3341.69
Miriam Schmidberger491.37
Florian Schneider5233.02
Bernd Brugge6265.96