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Summary form only given. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. CESI 2017 workshop summary. CESI2017 is about "conducting empirical studies in industrial settings". We aim at identifying, debating about, and mitigating the barriers challenging the design and execution of empirical studies in industrial settings. In the past...
Context: Agile software processes are more frequently being integrated with aspects of human centered design given the commonalities that the two approaches share, such as user involvement, importance attributed to testing and prototyping practices, iterative design and so on. Goal: tailor a SCRUM-based process by integrating it and adapting it with Human Centered Design (HCD) practices. Method: action...
Context: Conducting a Grounded Theory study is rigorous, demanding, and challenging. Misperceptions exist within the software engineering community. Objective: The purpose of this paper is to describe one extended participant observation Grounded Theory study for aiding new empirical researchers wanting to run similar research studies. Method: Following Constructivist Grounded Theory, we conducted...
Software development teams apply security practices to prevent vulnerabilities in the software they ship. However, vulnerabilities can be difficult to find, and security practices take time and effort. Stakeholders can better guide software development if they have empirical data on how security practices are applied by development teams. The goal of this paper is to inform managers and developers...
Researchers perform empirical studies in industry to gain qualitative insights into a real-world problem. However, common critics are the diversity and selection process of participants. To address these issues, we propose to improve the integration of question-answering systems into empirical study. In this paper, we i) describe approaches to conduct studies in such systems, ii) exemplify corresponding...
Background: Industry experiments are typically associated with higher external validity compared to academic experiments. However, when conducting industry experiments, dropouts and incomplete experimental tasks are quite common, which is unusual in academic experiments. To the best of our knowledge, this phenomenon has not been reported in the literature. Aim: Identify the circumstances that explain...
Context: Surveys constitute an valuable tool to capture a large-scale snapshot of the state of the practice. Apparently trivial to adopt, surveys hide, however, several pitfalls that might hinder rendering the result valid and, thus, useful. Goal: We aim at providing an overview of main pitfalls in software engineering surveys and report on practical ways to deal with them. Method: We build on the...
Getting companies involved in and committed to empirical research projects is a major challenge for many researchers. This paper discusses several cases of lessons learned about how to involve and get the commitment of companies in different types of empirical research projects. This paper will discuss the experiences of two very large consortium projects and one medium-size research project. In addition,...
The software engineering industry should be the laboratory of much, perhaps most, of the empirical software engineering research. Not only would this create a more realistic context and higher external validity of the empirical research, it would also ease the result transfer and make the results more convincing for the industry. Unfortunately, this is currently not the case. About 90% of software...
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