GUIDE TO ADVANCED EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Empirical studies have become an integral element of software engineering research and practice. This unique text/reference includes chapters from some of the top international empirical software engineering researchers and focuses on the practical knowledge necessary for conducting, reporting and using empirical methods in software engineering.
Part 1, "Research Methods and Techniques', examines the proper use of various strategies for collecting and analysing data, and the uses for which those strategies are most appropriate. Part 2, "Practical Foundations', provides a discussion of several important global issues that need to be considered from the very beginning of research planning. Finally, "Knowledge Creation" offers insight on using a set of disparate studies to provide useful decision support.