DocumentCode :
2272624
Title :
Action research use in software engineering: An initial survey
Author :
Santos, P. ; Travassos, Guilherme Horta
Author_Institution :
Syst. Eng. & Comput. Sci. Dept., PESC/COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
fYear :
2009
fDate :
15-16 Oct. 2009
Firstpage :
414
Lastpage :
417
Abstract :
This paper presents a literature survey of action research (AR) studies published in nine major software engineering (SE) journals and three conference proceedings in the period 1993 to June 2009. A strict selection based on distinguishing SE from information systems research has identified 16 papers. Although they represent a very small fraction of the studies being conducted in SE, such papers concern with different SE contexts allowing to get information about the increasing tendency in the AR use in software engineering. However, as shown by the initial results, SE researchers should invest more on rigor when defining, applying and reporting AR studies inSE.
Keywords :
research initiatives; software engineering; action research studies; information systems research; literature survey; software engineering; Computer science; Conference proceedings; Information systems; Programming; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software systems; Systems engineering and theory;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2009. ESEM 2009. 3rd International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
ISSN :
1938-6451
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4842-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1938-6451
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ESEM.2009.5316013
Filename :
5316013
Link To Document :
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