Evidence-based Software Engineering using R
About the book
This book aims to discuss what is currently known about software
engineering, based on an analysis of all publicly available software
engineering data.
This aim is not as ambitious as it sounds because there is not a
great deal of data publicly available. Until recently researchers in
software engineering concentrated on producing work that gave readers
mathematical orgasms, rather than anything useful to industry, that
was based on experimental evidence.
As work progressed, it became apparent that the best way to organise
the material was as two parts, the first covering software
engineering and the second the statistics likely to be needed for the
analysis of software engineering data.
Stuff to look at
version 0.10.0a: draft of the complete book.
This covers human cognitive characteristics, cognitive capitalism,
ecosystems, projects, reliability, source code + statistical
techniques useful for analysing software engineering data.
View all figures; includes links to
original paper for the data and source code on Github.
Reporting issues using Github is good
for general discussion and makes it hard for me to ignore them (which
I might do with email).
All referenced papers.
Code+data
The code+data
is available on Github (around 400M).
Workshop
Slides and
stuff for the workshops based on the book.
Major changes
31 Jul 18 Source code chapter released
3 Apr 18 Reliability chapter released
26 Nov 17 Tweaks, plus updated with newly arrived data
27 Oct 17 Projects chapter released
17 Jul 17 Ecosystems chapter released
26 Mar 17 Cognitive capitalism chapter released
29 Jan 17 Human cognitive characteristics chapter released
17 Oct 16 Statistical analysis material released
Minor changes
2 Aug 18 Fixed non-figure html github hyperlinks and some minor stuff.
18 Feb 17 Fixed citation hyperlinks and added page number(s) on which citation is referenced to every citation.
Please send any feedback to ESEUR "at" knosof dot co dot uk
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