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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
On the difficulty of replicating human subjects studies in software engineering
Replications play an important role in verifying empirical results. In this paper, we discuss our experiences performing a literal replication of a human subjects experiment that ...
Jonathan Lung, Jorge Aranda, Steve M. Easterbrook,...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Creating a cognitive metric of programming task difficulty
Conducting controlled experiments about programming activities often requires the use of multiple tasks of similar difficulty. In previously reported work about a controlled exper...
Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, Shawn Minto
ISESE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
PBR vs. checklist: a replication in the n-fold inspection context
Inspection is considered a powerful method to check software documents for defects. Many published work shows that inspections in requirements specification phase are particularly...
Lulu He, Jeffrey C. Carver
SIGSOFT
2012
ACM
12 years 4 months ago
Report from the 2nd international workshop on replication in empirical software engineering research (RESER 2011)
The RESER workshop provides a venue in which empirical software engineering researchers can discuss the theoretical foundations and methods of replication, as well as present the ...
Jonathan L. Krein, Charles D. Knutson, Lutz Preche...
ISESE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Analysis of the influence of communication between researchers on experiment replication
The replication of experiments is a key undertaking in SE. Successful replications enable a discipline’s body of knowledge to grow, as the results are added to those of earlier ...
Sira Vegas, Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Ana Mar&iacut...