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    • I do not think we really know the answer as a community. We really lack a list of prioritized questions, a list of fundamental challenges. But I do know is that the most relevant questions will: 1) do not have answers yet, or the answers are not consistent, or they are “folklore” 2) impact many [...]


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  • Sebastian Elbaum


    • Interesting reading: C. Wohlin, “Empirical Software Engineering: Teaching Methods and ConductingStudies”, in Empirical Software Engineering – Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (LNCS4336), pp. 135-142, edited by V. Basili, D. Rombach, K. Schneider, B. Kitchenham,D. Pfahl and R. Selby, Springer Verlag, 2007.


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  • Sebastian Elbaum


    • 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 [...]


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  • Sebastian Elbaum


    • There are at least three key elements that make a study relevant. First, a relevant study pursues a research question that matters to practitioners or that might affect groups of researchers or both. Very often I see very well conducted studies, with careful designs and implementations, but the question being asked is either uninteresting or [...]


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  • Sebastian Elbaum


    • A key guiding principle for reporting is transparency, and for me that means making the raw data available, following a standard reporting format, and describing the context of the study as much as possible. I am pushing so that every paper we publish that contains any empirical component  makes all the raw data available in [...]


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