dc.contributor.author |
O'Brien, Michael P. |
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dc.contributor.author |
Buckley, Jim |
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dc.contributor.author |
Exton, Chris |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-05-29T10:47:51Z |
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dc.date.available |
2012-05-29T10:47:51Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2005 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
O'Brien, Michael P. (2005) "Empirically studying software practitioners – bridging the gap between theory and practice," Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM’05); |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10344/2222 |
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dc.description |
peer-reviewed |
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dc.description.abstract |
It is the view of many computer scientists that the standard of empirical software engineering research leaves scope for improvement. However, there is also
an increasing awareness in the software engineering community that empirical studies are a vital aspect in the process of improving methods and tools, for software development and maintenance. This paper presents a review of the empirical work
carried out to date in the area of program comprehension and illustrates that most of the
evidence from these studies derives from lab-based experiments, thus implying a degree of artificial control. The paper argues that, in order to address the methodological shortfalls of the experimental paradigm, more qualitative methods need to be applied to accompany and support these quantitative studies, thus broadening the sources of data and increasing the ‘body of evidence’. |
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dc.language.iso |
eng |
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dc.publisher |
IEEE Computer Society |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM’05); |
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dc.rights |
“© 2005 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.” |
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dc.subject |
Emperical studies |
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dc.subject |
software engineering |
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dc.subject |
theory |
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dc.subject |
practice |
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dc.title |
Empirically studying software practitioners – bridging the gap between theory and practice |
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dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject |
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dc.type.supercollection |
all_ul_research |
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dc.type.supercollection |
ul_published_reviewed |
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dc.contributor.sponsor |
SFI |
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dc.relation.projectid |
B4-STEP |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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dc.internal.rssid |
1444238 |
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