General
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Experimental Software Engineering(2009/2010) |
Topic outline
- General
- Topic 1
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Topic 2
Class Abstracts
[27/2/2009]
- Course objectives and schedule
- Empirical strategies: surveys, case studies and experiments
- The role of experimentation on scientific research and technological innovation
- The scientific method and its applicability in Software Engineering
- Evaluation method (assignments overview)[06/03/2009]
- Variables identification and scale types
- Measures of centrality, dispersion and dependency
- Overview of the IFPUG database
- Brief overview of the Function Points method[13/03/2009]
- Data set reduction
- Estimation and confidence intervals
- Correlation analysis
- Selection of replication targets for assignment 1[20/03/2009]
- Dependent and independent variables
- Statistical distributions
- Testing distribution adherence
- Statistical significance[27/03/2009]
- Hypothesis testing
- Type I and type II errors
- Parametric and non-parametric tests
- Experimental design: within groups and between groups designs
- Introduction to within groups tests (parametric and non-parametric)[03/04/2009]
(Invited guest: Prof. Miguel Goulão)- Introduction to the experiments template
- Requirements definition
- Design planning
- Experiment execution
- Data analysis
- Results packaging - Topic 3
Topic 3
Bibliographic materials on Experiments on Software Engineering
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Topic 4
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Topic 5
1st Assignment - EXPERIMENT REPLICATION
(deadline: 20th April, 08.00AM)
Rules for successful submissions:
- ISI Yellow journals will have a bonus of 15% (3/20)
- ISI Rose journals will have a bonus of 5% (1/20)
- Non-ISI journal will have a penalty of 10% (-2/20)
Rules for unsuccessful submissions:
- Penalty of 25% (-5/20)
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Topic 6
2nd Assignment - TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
(deadline: 25th May, 08.00AM)
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