Paper Info
Title
Mitigating Threats to Validity in Empirical Software Engineering: A Traceability Case Study
Abstract
The issue of validity threats in empirical software engineering research is important. However, some authors overlook this, focusing on validating their work through application of fundamental testing techniques, instead. However, testing is different to empirical validation, with the latter being more concerned about how experimental conclusions are justified. An important factor that can render an experimental conclusion incorrect is researcher's bias, which can be especially relevant when setting the experimental parameters. Therefore, consideration of validity threats is essential to enable confidence in research results and assure the research quality. This paper provides a practical approach for mitigating threats to validity in empirical software engineering using a sequence of software activities. The paper is based on a real-world traceability case study for illustration purposes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/COMPSAC.2019.10227
2019 IEEE 43rd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
empirical-software-engineering,validity-threats,traceability
Conference
2
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0730-3157
978-1-7281-2607-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nasser Mustafa100.68
Yvan Labiche22874143.30
Dave Towey348249.77