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Reporting Systematic Reviews: Some Lessons from a Tertiary Study (2017)
Journal Article
Budgen, D., Brereton, P., Drummond, S., & Williams, N. (2018). Reporting Systematic Reviews: Some Lessons from a Tertiary Study. Information and Software Technology, 95, 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2017.10.017

Context: Many of the systematic reviews published in software engineering are related to research or methodological issues and hence are unlikely to be of direct benefit to practitioners or teachers. Those that are relevant to practice and teaching n... Read More about Reporting Systematic Reviews: Some Lessons from a Tertiary Study.

The contribution that empirical studies performed in industry make to the findings of systematic reviews: A tertiary study (2017)
Journal Article
Budgen, D., Brereton, P., Williams, N., & Drummond, S. (2018). The contribution that empirical studies performed in industry make to the findings of systematic reviews: A tertiary study. Information and Software Technology, 94, 234-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2017.10.012

Context: Systematic reviews can provide useful knowledge for software engineering practice, by aggregating and synthesising empirical studies related to a specific topic. Objective: We sought to assess how far the findings of systematic reviews addre... Read More about The contribution that empirical studies performed in industry make to the findings of systematic reviews: A tertiary study.

Using Facebook to improve communication in undergraduate software development teams (2009)
Journal Article
Charlton, T., Devlin, M., & Drummond, S. (2009). Using Facebook to improve communication in undergraduate software development teams. Computer Science Education, 19(4), 273-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/08993400903384935

As part of the CETL ALiC initiative (Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Active Learning in Computing), undergraduate computing science students at Newcastle and Durham universities participated in a cross-site team software development pr... Read More about Using Facebook to improve communication in undergraduate software development teams.