Empirical Methods in Software Engineering (01OPJIU)

Corso di III livello - Anno 2012

News

• Location of lectures: Aula C In the basement, follow directions for Aula 14

Schedule

1. Tue 20/11 14.30 - 17.30 - Introduction, Overview of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering
2. Wed 28/11 9.00 - 13.00 - The experimental process
3. Thu 29/11 9.00 - 13.00 - Systematic Literature Reviews
4. Thu 6/12 14.30 - 17.30 - Software Measurement
5. Wed 12/12 9.00 - 13.00 - Data Visualization
6. Thu 13/12 9.00 - 13.00 - Data Analysis
7. Wed 19/12 9.00 - 13.00 - Surveys

Material

• Introduction: slides
  1. Screencast
• Overview: slides
  1. Screencast part 1
  2. Screencast part 2
• Experimental process: slides
  • Sample worksheet for the Binomial test
• Systematic Literature Review: slides
• Software measurement: slides
• Data visualization: slides
• Data analysis: slides
  • Paper:
    Ricca F., Di Penta M., Torchiano M., Tonella P., Ceccato M., Visaggio C. A. "Are Fit Tables Really Talking? A Series of Experiments to Understand whether Fit Tables are Useful during Evolution Tasks" IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, Leipzig May 10-18, pp. 261-271, 2008
  • Raw data
  • Sample session.R
• Surveys: slides
• Systematic Literature Reviews: slides

Goals

• desing, plan, and conduct experimentation (and empirical validation in general) mainly in the context of software engineering, but also in other disciplines of Computer Science;
• perform data collection from all the different sources available during all the range of the software development lifecycle: text, software repositories, human subject observation (developers);
• build statistical models based on the collected data from software products, software processes and experiments

Exam