Memorias de investigación
Research Publications in journals:
Developing Search Strategies for Detecting Relevant Experiments
Year:2009

Research Areas
  • Artificial intelligence,
  • Programming language

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Abstract
Our goal is to analyze the optimality of search strategies for use in systematic reviews of software engineering experiments. Studies retrieval is an important problem in any evidence-based discipline. This question has not been examined for evidence-based software engineering as yet. We have run several searches exercising different terms denoting experiments to evaluate their recall and precision. Based on our evaluation, we propose using a high recall strategy when there are plenty of resources or the results need to be exhaustive. For any other case, we propose optimal, or even acceptable, search strategies. As a secondary goal, we have analysed trends and weaknesses in terminology used in articles reporting software engineering experiments. We have found that it is impossible for a search strategy to retrieve 100% of the experiments of interest (as happens in other experimental disciplines), because of the shortage of reporting standards in the community.
International
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JCR
Si
Title
EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
ISBN
1382-3256
Impact factor JCR
1,091
Impact info
Volume
14
10.1007/s10664-008-9091-7
Journal number
5
From page
513
To page
539
Month
SEPTIEMBRE
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Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Ingeniería del Software
  • Departamento: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería de Software