Bøger af Per Runeson

It is my belief that software engineers not only need to know software engineering methods and processes, but that they also should know how to assess them. Conse- quently, I have taught principles of experimentation and empirical studies as part of the software engineering curriculum. Until now, this meant selecting a text from another discipline, usually psychology, and augmenting it with journal or confer- ence papers that provide students with software engineering examples of experi- ments and empirical studies. This book fills an important gap in the software engineering literature: it pro- vides a concise, comprehensive look at an important aspect of software engineer- ing: experimental analysis of how well software engineering methods, methodologies, and processes work. Since all of these change so rapidly in our field, it is important to know how to evaluate new ones. This book teaches how to go about doing this and thus is valuable not only for the software engineering stu- dent, but also for the practicing software engineering professional who will be able to * Evaluate software engineering techniques. * Determine the value (or lack thereof) of claims made about a software engineer- ing method or process in published studies. Finally, this book serves as a valuable resource for the software engineering researcher.

This book constitutes the refereed proceeding of the 13th European Software Process Improvement Conference, EuroSPI 2006, held in Joensuu, Finland in October 2006. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions.

This is the first software engineering specific book on the case study research method. Based on the authors' own experiences of in-depth case studies of software projects in international corporations, the book presents detailed practical guidelines on the preparation, conduct, design, and reporting of case studies of software engineering.

The book is self-contained and it is suitable as a course book in undergraduate or graduate studies where the need for empirical studies in software engineering is stressed.