A systematic review of systematic review process research in software engineering

B Kitchenham, P Brereton - Information and software technology, 2013 - Elsevier
Context Many researchers adopting systematic reviews (SRs) have also published papers
discussing problems with the SR methodology and suggestions for improving it. Since …

A review of unit level digital twin applications in the manufacturing industry

T Böttjer, D Tola, F Kakavandi, CR Wewer… - CIRP Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the hype around Digital Twins (DTs) has been exponentially increasing in
both industry and academia. DTs are a potential solution to increase automation and …

Domain-specific languages: A systematic mapping study

T Kosar, S Bohra, M Mernik - Information and Software Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
Context: In this study we report on a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) for Domain-Specific
Languages (DSLs), based on an automatic search including primary studies from journals …

Views on internal and external validity in empirical software engineering

J Siegmund, N Siegmund, S Apel - 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Empirical methods have grown common in software engineering, but there is no consensus
on how to apply them properly. Is practical relevance key? Do internally valid studies have …

[PDF][PDF] Using Mapping Studies in Software Engineering.

D Budgen, M Turner, P Brereton, BA Kitchenham - Ppig, 2008 - inf.puc-rio.br
Background: A mapping study provides a systematic and objective procedure for identifying
the nature and extent of the empirical study data that is available to answer a particular …

An empirical investigation on the benefits of gamification in programming courses

B Marín, J Frez, J Cruz-Lemus, M Genero - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Context: Programming courses are compulsory for most engineering degrees, but students'
performance on these courses is often not as good as expected. Programming is difficult for …

Recovering from a decade: a systematic mapping of information retrieval approaches to software traceability

M Borg, P Runeson, A Ardö - Empirical Software Engineering, 2014 - Springer
Engineers in large-scale software development have to manage large amounts of
information, spread across many artifacts. Several researchers have proposed expressing …

The state of the art of business process management research as published in the BPM conference: Recommendations for progressing the field

J Recker, J Mendling - Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2016 - Springer
The research field of Business Process Management (BPM) has gradually developed as a
discipline situated within the computer, management and information systems sciences. Its …

Factors of process model comprehension—Findings from a series of experiments

J Mendling, M Strembeck, J Recker - Decision Support Systems, 2012 - Elsevier
In order to make good decisions about the design of information systems, an essential skill is
to understand process models of the business domain the system is intended to support …

Effectiveness of Kotlin vs. Java in android app development tasks

L Ardito, R Coppola, G Malnati, M Torchiano - Information and Software …, 2020 - Elsevier
Context: Kotlin is a new programming language representing an alternative to Java; they
both target the same JVM and can safely coexist in the same application. Kotlin is advertised …