Towards a Computerized Infrastructure for Managing Experimental Software Engineering Knowledge

The growing interest in experimental studies in software engineering and the difficulties found in their execution had led software engineering researchers to look for ways to (semi) automate the experimental process. This paper introduces the concept of experimental Software Engineering Environment (eSEE) – an infrastructure capable of instantiating software engineering environments to manage knowledge about the definition, planning, execution and packaging of experimental studies in software engineering.

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