dc.contributor.author | Exton, Chris | |
dc.contributor.author | Avram, Gabriela | |
dc.contributor.author | Buckley, Jim | |
dc.contributor.author | LeGear, Andrew | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-09T10:17:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-03-09T10:17:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10344/2076 | |
dc.description | peer-reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This paper outlines the needs for careful empirical-design choices during the study of software practitioners. It does this by presenting a documented, but unpublished, in-vivo, empirical, group study. The study was initially conceived as an experiment but was subsequently overwhelmed by human and other factors. As a consequence, only more observational comments could be derived from the study. In this paper, the study is analyzed and discussed, as a means of illustrating the conflict that often exists between in-vivo empirical studies and the experimental paradigm. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | PPIG;06/2007 | |
dc.subject | software engineering | en_US |
dc.subject | software practitioners | en_US |
dc.title | An experiential report on the limitations of experimentation as a means of empirically investigating software practitioners. | en_US |
dc.type | Conference item | en_US |
dc.type.supercollection | all_ul_research | en_US |
dc.type.supercollection | ul_published_reviewed | en_US |
dc.type.restriction | none | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | SFI | |
dc.relation.projectid | 03/CE2/I303_1 |