All Outputs (6)

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 a Follow-on Survey to Investigate Why Use of the Visitor, Singleton and Facade Patterns is Controversial (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, C., Budgen, D., & Drummond, S. (2012, September). Using a Follow-on Survey to Investigate Why Use of the Visitor, Singleton and Facade Patterns is Controversial. Presented at 6th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering & Measurement, Lund, Sweden

Context: A previous study has shown that software devel- opers who are experienced with using design patterns hold some con icting opinions about three of the more popular design patterns: Facade, Singleton and Visitor. Aim: To identify the character... Read More about Using a Follow-on Survey to Investigate Why Use of the Visitor, Singleton and Facade Patterns is Controversial.

What Scope is There for Adopting Evidence-Informed Teaching in Software Engineering? (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Budgen, D., Drummond, S., Brereton, P., & Holland, N. (2012, June). What Scope is There for Adopting Evidence-Informed Teaching in Software Engineering?. Presented at 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Zurich, Switzerland

Context: In teaching about software engineering we currently make little use of any empirical knowledge. Aim: To examine the outcomes available from the use of Evidence-Based Software Engineering (EBSE) practices, so as to identify where these can pr... Read More about What Scope is There for Adopting Evidence-Informed Teaching in Software Engineering?.

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.

Pedagogic data as a basis for Web service fault models (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Looker, N., Burd, L., Drummond, S., Xu, J., & Munro, M. (2005, October). Pedagogic data as a basis for Web service fault models. Presented at IEEE International Workshop on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE'05)., Beijing, PRC

This paper outlines our method for deriving Fault Models for use with our WS-FIT tool that can be used to assess the dependability of SOA. Since one of the major issues with extracting these heuristic rules and Fault Models is the availability of sof... Read More about Pedagogic data as a basis for Web service fault models.