Evidence-based Software Engineering
About the book
This book discusses what is currently
known about software engineering, based on an analysis of all the publicly
available data. This aim is not as ambitious as it sounds,
because there is not a great deal of data publicly available.
The intent is to provide material that is useful to professional
developers working in industry; until recently researchers in software
engineering have been more interested in vanity work, promoted by ego
and bluster.
The material is organized in two parts, the first covering software
engineering and the second the statistics likely to be needed for the
analysis of software engineering data.
Available downloads
The complete book: 8 November 20, version 1.0,
and
mobile friendly pdf (layout can be shaky).
The code+data
on Github (around 460M).
Errata listing known issues: 11 July 26,
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, and the
bibtex file.
Slides and
stuff for the workshops based on the second half of the book.
View all figures; includes links to
original paper for the data and source code on Github.
Discord channel
Invitation to the Evidence based software engineering channel.
Data discovered since publication
2022
2023
2024
2025
How to cite
The bibtex citation for the book is:
@Book{Jones_20b,
author = "Derek M. Jones",
title = "Evidence-based Software Engineering: based on the publicly available data",
publisher = "Knowledge Software, Ltd",
ISBN = "978-1-8382913-0-3",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
data = "website",
}
Available in dead tree form
Currently sold out.
Amazon in the UK or USA.
Major changes
8 Nov 20 Release version 1.0
Send feedback to ESEUR "at" knosof dot co dot uk
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