Outputs (2)

Using rapid reviews to support software engineering practice: a systematic review and a replication study (2024)
Journal Article
Pizard, S., Lezama, J., García, R., Vallespir, D., & Kitchenham, B. (2025). Using rapid reviews to support software engineering practice: a systematic review and a replication study. Empirical Software Engineering, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-024-10545-6

Context
A few years ago, rapid reviews (RR) were introduced in software engineering (SE) to address the problem that standard systematic reviews take too long and too much effort to be of value to practitioners. Prior to our study, few practice-driv... Read More about Using rapid reviews to support software engineering practice: a systematic review and a replication study.

Recommendations for analysing and meta-analysing small sample size software engineering experiments (2024)
Journal Article
Kitchenham, B., & Madeyski, L. (2024). Recommendations for analysing and meta-analysing small sample size software engineering experiments. Empirical Software Engineering, 29(6), Article 137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-024-10504-1

Context: Software engineering (SE) experiments often have small sample sizes. This can result in data sets with non-normal characteristics, which poses problems as standard parametric meta-analysis, using the standardized mean difference (StdMD) effe... Read More about Recommendations for analysing and meta-analysing small sample size software engineering experiments.