Outputs (3)

How Should Software Engineering Secondary Studies Include Grey Material? (2022)
Journal Article
Kitchenham, B., Madeyski, L., & Budgen, D. (2023). How Should Software Engineering Secondary Studies Include Grey Material?. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 49(2), 872-882. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2022.3165938

Context: Recent papers have proposed the use of grey literature (GL) and multivocal reviews. These papers have raised issues about the practices used for systematic reviews (SRs) in software engineering (SE) and suggested that there should be changes... Read More about How Should Software Engineering Secondary Studies Include Grey Material?.

SEGRESS: Software Engineering Guidelines for REporting Secondary Studies (2022)
Journal Article
Kitchenham, B. A., Madeyski, L., & Budgen, D. (2023). SEGRESS: Software Engineering Guidelines for REporting Secondary Studies. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 49(3), 1273 -1298. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2022.3174092

Context: Several tertiary studies have criticized the reporting of software engineering secondary studies. Objective: Our objective is to identify guidelines for reporting software engineering (SE) secondary studies which would address problems obser... Read More about SEGRESS: Software Engineering Guidelines for REporting Secondary Studies.

Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering (2022)
Journal Article
Budgen, D., & Brereton, P. (2022). Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering. Information and Software Technology, 145(106840), Article 106840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.106840

Context: Other disciplines commonly employ secondary studies to address the needs of practitioners and policy-makers. Since being adopted by software engineering in 2004, many have been undertaken by researchers. Objective: To assess how the role of... Read More about Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering.