Lecture Notes on Empirical Software Engineering

Introduction: About the Need of Empirical Software Engineering (N Juristo & A Moreno) Building a Body of Knowledge Through Empirical Methods: Software Reading Techniques (F Shull et al.) Building a Family of Software Inspections Experiments from Published Studies (K Wholin) A Series of Experiments on the Effectiveness of Software Design Patterns (W Tichy) Gaining Empirical Knowledge in Software Testing (N Juristo et al.) Experimentation in Industry: Use of Empirical Experiments in Industry (O Laitenberger & D Rombach) External Software Engineering Experiments (Definition, Execution, Exploitation) (F Houdek) Experimental Validation of New Software Technology (M Zelkowitz et al.).