Title
Has Twenty-five Years of Empirical Software Engineering Made a Difference?
Abstract
Our activities in software engineering typically fallinto one of three categories, (1) to invent new phenomena,(2) to understand existing phenomena, and (3) tofacilitate inspirational education. This paper explores theplace of empirical software engineering in the first two ofthese activities. In this exploration evidence is drawnfrom the empirical literature in the areas of softwareinspections and software cost modelling and estimation.This research is then compared with the literaturepublished in the Journal of Empirical SoftwareEngineering. This evidence throws light on aspects oftheory derivation, experimental methods and analysis,and also the challenges that we face as empiricalsoftware engineering evolves into the future.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/APSEC.2002.1183076
APSEC
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer science education,empirical software engineering,inspection,literature,software engineering,software inspection,computer science,software measurement,future
Software Engineering Process Group,Personal software process,Systems engineering,Software peer review,Engineering,Empirical process (process control model),Software construction,Software sizing,Software requirements,Social software engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1850-8
22
1.63
References 
Authors
23
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
D. Ross Jeffery175363.72
Louise Scott2424.78