Knowledge Repository Structure of an Experimental Software Engineering Environment

Experimental studies execution in Software Engineering is time consuming and produces great amount of information and knowledge with complex management. Hence, it is important to have a computerized infrastructure to support the experimental study execution. This infrastructure should provide efficient knowledge representation and management mechanisms regarding Experimentation. In this paper we discuss the knowledge repository structure of an experimentation environment in Software Engineering (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.