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Software Evaluation – Case Studies

January 15, 2010

A case study is an empirical enquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context.

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Software Evaluation – Quasi-Experiments & Interviews

January 15, 2010

A quasi-experiment is similar to a laboratory experiment but always lacks random assignment to treatment.

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Software Evaluation – Experiments

January 15, 2010

Experiments are used to provide a means of investigating a cause and effect relationship between a factor and observed outcomes.
“A controlled experiment in software engineering is a randomised or quasi-experiment, in which individuals or teams (the study units) conduct one or more software engineering tasks for the sake of comparing different populations, processes, methods, techniques, [...]

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Software Evaluation – Surveys

January 15, 2010

Surveys are a common methodology used within Software Evaluation and evaluations generally. One limitation with surveys is often wanting to survey people you can’t, for example, why do people not apply to Durham University.

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Empirical Software Evaluation

January 14, 2010

The empirical context of Software Evaluation refers to evaluation based on “information gained by means of observation, experience, or experiment.” It is very much to do with rigorous, scientific investigations and evaluations. This is in contrast to anecdotal evidence and “rules of thumb”.
The following questions are related to the empirical context.

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Software Evaluation Introduction

January 13, 2010

The empirical evaluation of software tools and processes is a relatively new topic in Software Engineering education and is quite broad, and as such we only touch upon it from a high-level.
I have an exam shortly on the topic so I’ll be going over some sample questions in preparation.
The first questions are of [...]

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