| Experimental
Software Engineering Course DT8111 (NTNU) Autumn 2011 |
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| Responsible: Reidar Conradi | ||||
| Teacher Daniela Cruzes | ||||
| Start Date: Friday, September, 2, 2011 At 13:30 pm at ITV 464 | ||||
| # | Week | Activity | Location | Duration |
| 1 | 35 | First Meeting, Presentation of the Course and of the Students Interests and planning for the course. Please fill out the Background form before the classes start. It will help us with the discussions on the first day. | Classroom | 2hs |
| 2 | 36 | Empirical Strategies (Robson 1, 2) - Assignment 1 Handout | Classroom | 3hs (+ 9 hs of reading) |
| 3 | 37 | Measurement and Feedback (Reading: Tore Dyba - Chapter 4 and Robson Chapter 3) | Classroom | 3hs (+ 9 hs of reading) |
| 5 | 38-40 | Definition and Planning of Experiments (Reading: Robson Chapt. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) | Home | 12hs reading |
| 6 | 41 | Discussion of Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Discussion of Results from Assignment 1 Evaluation Forms for 3 papers each student (Papers from TSE, IST, JSS or EMSE ). | Classroom | 3hs (+ 9 hs of reading) |
| 7 | 43 | Discussion Results of Assignment 2 (Read 3 experimental software engineering papers and extract information from them based on our template (At Least 1 Case Study and one Experiment), (Papers from TSE, IST, JSS or EMSE they need to be different from Assignment 1) | Classroom | 3hs (+ 9 hs of reading) |
| 44 | Operation,
Analysis and Presentation of Experiments (Reading: Robson 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
15) and paper: Studying Software Engineers: Data Collection Techniques for Software Field Studies, EMSE, 2005. |
Home | 12hs reading and preparation | |
| 9 | 45 | Operation,
Analysis and Presentation of Experiments ( Robson 10,11, 12, 13, 14, 15) and
paper: Studying Software Engineers: Data Collection Techniques for Software Field Studies, EMSE, 2005. |
Classroom | 3 hs (+9 preparation) |
| 10 | 46 | Assignment 3 - Executing the Studies and Chapter 16, 17 and 18 of Robson) | Classroom | 3 hs (+9 preparation) |
| 10 | 47 | Assignment 3 - Executing the Studies and Chapter 16, 17 and 18 of Robson) | Classroom | 3 hs (+9 preparation) |
| 11 | 48 | Assignment 4 - check point with students, discussion and clarification of doubts. | Classroom | 3 hs (+9 preparation) |
| 12 | 49 | Assignment 4 - Executing the Studies and Presentation of the Results | Classroom | 3 hs (+9 preparation) |
| 13 | 50 | Assignment 4 - Executing the Studies and Presentation of the Results | Classroom | |
| 14 | 51 | Oral Exams | Classroom | |
| Books | Real World Research: A resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner Researchers, Colin Robson, 3rd Edition | |||
| "Process Improvement in Practice - A Handbook for IT Companies", Tore Dyba, Torgeir Dingsoyr and Nils Brede Moe | ||||
| Complem. Books |
Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research by Donald Campbell and Julian Stanley (1966), ISBN: 0395307872. | |||
| Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction, C. Wohlin, P. Runeson, M. Host, M.C. Ohlsson, B. Regnell, A. Wesslen, Springer: International Series in Software Engineering, Vol. 6 (2000), ISBN: 0792386825. | ||||
| The Goal/Question/Metric Method: A Practical Guide for Quality Improvement of Software Development by Rini van Solingen and Egon Berghout (1999), ISBN: 0077095537. | ||||
| Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Norman Fenton and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger | ||||
| Complem. Resources | TSE and EMSE Papers | |||
| Assignments | ||||
| Example of Design of Experiment | ||||