What are most effective empirical strategies you have seen employed to conduct software engineering studies? What are the factors that may influence your choice of strategy when conducting your research?

Posted by elbaum | Posted on 09-07-2011

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One strategy that is extremelly effective is “incrementalism”. The idea is not to take a big-bang approach to the design and implementation of a study but ratherto conduct a series of studies, refined over a period of time, addressing some of the threats that are found and incorporating more context and variables of interest.

Shari Pfleeger had an interested article related to this topic in IEEE Computer October 1999 entitled “albert Einstein and Empirical Software Engineering”. (doi>10.1109/2.796106).

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