Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Experiences from ESERNET

Conradi, Reidar; Wang, Alf Inge

Nowadays, societies crucially depend on high-quality software for a large part of their functionalities and activities. Therefore, software professionals, researchers, managers, and practitioners alike have to competently decide what software technologies and products to choose for which purpose.

For various reasons, systematic empirical studies employing strictly scientific methods are hardly practiced in software engineering. Thus there is an unquestioned need for developing improved and better-qualified empirical methods, for their application in practice and for dissemination of the results.

This book describes different kinds of empirical studies and methods for performing such studies, e.g., for planning, performing, analyzing, and reporting such studies. Actual studies are presented in detail in various chapters dealing with inspections, testing, object-oriented techniques, and component-based software engineering.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2003-08-21

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783540406723

DOI: 10.1007/b11962

Dimensions: 233cm x155cm

Pages: 284