Title :
Research synthesis in software engineering: a case for meta-analysis
Author_Institution :
Software Eng. Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
The use of meta-analytic techniques to summarize empirical software engineering research results is illustrated using a set of 5 published experiments from the literature. The intent of the analysis is to guide future work in this area through objective summarization of the literature to date. A focus on effect magnitude, in addition to statistical significance is championed, and the reader is provided with an illustration of simple methods for computing effect magnitudes
Keywords :
research and development management; software development management; software metrics; effect magnitude; empirical software engineering research results; meta-analysis; meta-analytic techniques; objective summarization; research synthesis; software engineering; statistical significance; Computer aided software engineering; Glass; Inspection; Psychology; Sampling methods; Software engineering; Statistical analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Software Metrics Symposium, 1999. Proceedings. Sixth International
Conference_Location :
Boca Raton, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0403-5
DOI :
10.1109/METRIC.1999.809735
