Facebook is rapidly gaining recognition as a powerful research tool for the social sciences. It
constitutes a large and diverse pool of participants, who can be selectively recruited for both …

Based on their own experiences of in-depth case studies of software projects in international
corporations, in this book the authors present detailed practical guidelines on the …

Grounded Theory (GT), a sociological research method designed to study social
phenomena, is increasingly being used to investigate the human and social aspects of …

This textbook, which has become the leading source for empirical software engineering
research through its earlier editions, provides an in-depth introduction to experimentation in …

Recommendation systems support users and developers of various computer and software
systems to overcome information overload, perform information discovery tasks, and …

Abstract Research in Mining Software Repositories (MSR) is research involving human
subjects, as the repositories usually contain data about developers' and users' interactions …

Many practitioners and researchers still consider software as program code, composed by
algorithms and associated documentation, written in a programming language, and finally …

We adapted a survey instrument developed by Timothy Lethbridge to assess the extent to
which the education delivered by four UK universities matches the requirements of the …

This paper explores the growing concerns with computer science research, and in particular,
computer security research and its relationship with the committees that review human …

Systematic literature reviews are conducted to “identify, analyse and interpret all available
evidence related to a specific research question”[96]. As it aims to give a complete …