NDLI: Evaluation Studies of Software Testing Research in the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lemos, O.A.L. Ferrari, F.C. Eler, M.M. Maldonado, J.C. Masiero, P.C.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Experimentation is the traditional way of identifying cause-effect relationships in scientific research. Lately, there has been an increasing understanding that experiments and other forms of evaluation should be more thoroughly disseminated among computer science and, in particular, Software Engineering (SE) researchers. Software testing (ST) is an important SE topic, where experiments are particularly valuable: since cost constraints and high effectiveness goals are common within this subfield, cost/benefit characteristics have to be adequately evaluated to deem a specific approach useful or not. This paper reports on a historical perspective of the evaluation studies present in ST research published in the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES). The survey characterizes the software testing-related papers published in the 24-year history of SBES, investigates the types of evaluation presented in these studies - when they were presented at all - and whether the number of evaluations has increased over the years. Additionally, the survey also brings a preliminary characterization of the Brazilian software testing community that adopts SBES as a vehicle to publish its research. Results show that the number of papers that present evaluation studies have significantly increased over the years. However, on the downside, amongst the papers that described some kind of evaluation, only 20% performed more rigorous evaluations (e.g. experiments or case studies in the industrial context), whereas 80% described exploratory, less rigorous case studies.
Starting Page	56
Ending Page	65
File Size	505673
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781457721878
DOI	10.1109/SBES.2011.30
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-09-28
Publisher Place	Brazil
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing Empirical software engineering Communities Educational institutions History Proposals Experiments Software engineering Brazilian software engineering research
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Evaluation Studies of Software Testing Research in the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Empirical Software Engineering Research - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Search Based Software Engineering: A Review from the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Some researcher considerations when conducting empirical studies in industry

Trends in the Quality of Human-Centric Software Engineering Experiments--A Quasi-Experiment

Issues in using students in empirical studies in software engineering education

Workshop on games and software engineering: (GAS 2011)

Empirical Studies in Reverse Engineering and Maintenance: Employing Developers to Evaluate Your Approach and Tool

Assessing the Influence of Multiple Test Case Selection on Mutation Experiments

Evaluation Studies of Software Testing Research in the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Similar Documents

Evaluation Studies of Software Testing Research in the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Empirical Software Engineering Research - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Search Based Software Engineering: A Review from the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Some researcher considerations when conducting empirical studies in industry

Trends in the Quality of Human-Centric Software Engineering Experiments--A Quasi-Experiment

Issues in using students in empirical studies in software engineering education

Workshop on games and software engineering: (GAS 2011)

Empirical Studies in Reverse Engineering and Maintenance: Employing Developers to Evaluate Your Approach and Tool

Assessing the Influence of Multiple Test Case Selection on Mutation Experiments

Evaluation Studies of Software Testing Research in the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering