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Directions and Methodologies for Empirical Software Engineering Research

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This report summarises and builds on the results of the “Directions and Methodologies for Empirical Software Engineering Research” group discussion. In particular, we considered the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to empirical software engineering research in light of the discussions and presentations during the workshop. The following sections describe each of these aspects of our discussion in turn. In addition, to finalise our discussion we agreed on a three-point plan for future work.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Reading, UK

    R. Harrison

  2. Centre for Systems and Software Engineering, South Bank University, UK

    N. Badoo

  3. Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

    E. Barry

  4. Institut fur Softwaretechnik, University of Vienna, Austria

    S. Biffl

  5. Software Engineering Laboratory/Computer Sciences Corporation, USA

    A. Parra

  6. University of Victoria, Canada

    B. Winter

  7. Fraunhofer Institute IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    J. Wuest

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Harrison, R., Badoo, N., Barry, E. et al. Directions and Methodologies for Empirical Software Engineering Research. Empirical Software Engineering 4, 405–410 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009877923978

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