Search convincing evidence in Software Engineering studies

• Main Authors: Alan Dunkel, Alice Gödel
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Instituto Antioqueño de Investigación (IAI) 2015-06-01
• Series: Revista Antioqueña de las Ciencias Computacionales y la Ingeniería de Software (RACCIS)
• Subjects: Computer Science; empirical research; software community; software projects
• Online Access: http://fundacioniai.org//raccis/v5n1/n8a4.pdf

What makes elegant, valid, useful and convincing evidence? Find the answer to this question has been the work field for decades by various researchers. In the literature there is a number of papers on Empirical Software Engineering and discussed in countless discussions, workshops, conferences and special issues of journals. This article presents a reflection on the evidence; is reviewed progress in Software Engineering and attempts to answer questions such as: What is the good that has been done so far? Where will the related research? The findings show that: 1) find about convincing evidence is harder than you may think, 2) Software Engineering researchers have to work together as a community and share their achievements, and 3) it must be acknowledged that convincing evidence is a specific component context, because that is convincing for someone may not be for others. Consequently, we must be prepared to reinterpret and rescan each time you disclose something about.