Empirical Software Engineering
Published July 2, 2019 | Version v1
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Replication package for "Evolution of statistical analysis in ESE research"

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg

Description

This is the replication package for the analysis done in the paper "Evolution of statistical analysis in empirical software engineering research: Current state and steps forward" (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2019.07.002, preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00933).

The package includes CSV files with data on statistical usage extracted from 5 journals in SE (EMSE, IST, JSS, TOSEM, TSE). The data was extracted from papers between 2001 - 2015. The package also contains forms, scripts and figures (generated using the scripts) used in the paper.

The extraction tool mentioned in the paper is available in dockerhub via: https://hub.docker.com/r/robertfeldt/sept

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References

  • Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto, Richard Torkar, Robert Feldt, Lucas Gren, Carlo A. Furia, Ziwei Huang, Evolution of statistical analysis in empirical software engineering research: Current state and steps forward, Journal of Systems and Software, 2019. ISSN 0164-1212, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2019.07.002.