Paper Info
Title
Empirical-WebGen: a web-based environment for the automatic generation of surveys and experiments
Abstract
Empirical studies in Software Engineering are essential for the validation of various methods, techniques, tools, etc. and human resources playa fundamental role in carrying out these studies successfully. These studies have captured the attention of the scientific community in Software Engineering over the last years, and are those which are most commonly used in controlled experiments, case studies and surveys. Traditionally, these studies have been undertaken in laboratories, bringing their experimental subjects together in one time and space. Due to the limitations caused by this during experimentation, the necessity of providing an open and distributed environment arises. Such an environment would permit the configuration of the parameters of an experiment or survey, depending on the characteristics of the people to whom they are directed and, furthermore resolving the problems of time and space thanks to the possibility of their being carried out via the Web. This paper describes the Empirical-WebGen software tool. This tool makes the design of surveys and experiments possible and supports both their later realization and the analysis of the results obtained. The tool has been used to carry out both a survey and an experiment on line which have allowed us to obtain some preliminary validation results.
Year
Venue
Field
2008
EASE
Software tool,Systems engineering,Human resources,Distributed Computing Environment,Computer science,Empirical process (process control model),Web application,Empirical research
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
14
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francisco Novillo100.34
Felix Garcia234225.00
Elvira Rolón340.74
Francisco Ruiz417123.37
Mario Piattini54232354.63