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| A replication is the repetition of an experiment. Several efforts have been made to adopt replication as a common practice in software engineering. There are different types of replications, depending on their purpose. Similar replications keep the experimental conditions as alike as possible to the original ones. External similar replications, where the replicating experimenters are not the same people as the original experimenters, have been a stumbling block. Several attempts at combining the results of replications have resulted in failure. Software engineering does not appear to be well suited to such replications, because it works with complex experimentally immature contexts. Software engineering settings have a large number of variables, and the role that many of them play is unknown. A successful (or useful) similar replication helps to better understand the phenomenon under study by verifying results and/or identifying contextual variables that could influence (or not) the results, through the combination of experimental results. | |
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International
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JCR
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Title
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INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY |
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ISBN
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0950-5849 |
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Impact factor JCR
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1,25 |
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Impact info
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Volume
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55 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2012.07 |
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Journal number
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2 |
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From page
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215 |
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To page
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225 |
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Month
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SIN MES |
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Ranking
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0 |