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Ponencias en congresos:
Using Differences among Replications of Software Engineering Experiments to Gain Knowledge
Año:2009

Áreas de investigación
  • Inteligencia artificial,
  • Lenguaje de programación

Datos
Descripción
In no science or engineering discipline does it make sense to speak of isolated experiments. The resul ts of a single experiment cannot be viewed as representative of the underlying reality. The concept of experiment is closely related to replication. Experiment replication is the repetition of an experiment to double-check its results. Multiple replications of an experiment increase the credibility of its results. Software engineering has tried its hand at the identical repetition of experiments in the way of the natural sciences (physics, chemistry, etc.). After numerous attempts over the years, excepting experiments repeated by the same researchers at the same site, no exact replications have yet been achieved. One key reason for this is the complexity of the software development setting. This complexity prevents the many experimental conditions from being reproduced identically. This paper reports research into whether non-exact replications can be of any use. We propose a process that allows researchers to generate new knowledge when running non-exact replications. To illustrate the advantages of the proposed process, two different replications of an experiment are shown.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Orlando, Florida
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-1-4244-4842-5
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
15/10/2009
Fecha fin congreso
16/10/2009
Desde la página
356
Hasta la página
366
Título de las actas
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Ingeniería del Software
  • Departamento: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería de Software