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Experimentation in Software Engineering (2013 Spring)
- Organisation: ÅAU / Dept. of Information Technologies
- Credit Points: 5
- Schedule: Period IV
- Responsible Person: Marta Olszewska
- Course code: 453400
- Web page: https://moodle2.vasa.abo.fi/course/view.php?id=1601
- Objectives: The main goal of the course is to provide the necessary background to perform sound and meaningful experiments in Software Engineering in two areas:
- Evaluating and selecting development methods and tools
- Evaluating and selecting product and service features.
- Content: The course provides an introduction to empirical methods in
Software Engineering with the objective to learn how to evaluate Software
Engineering methods, development tools, as well as product and service features
against each other.
Evaluation of new and existing methods and tools is very important when considering the constant and rapid changes in the Software Engineering field and the high cost of adoption of new solutions in the industry. Evaluation of product and service features help us to decide what feature a software system should have.
The course covers the following topics- Empirical strategies: Surveys, Case Studies, Experiments – how to choose a proper one?
- Case studies – how to structure and execute?
- Experimental Process – how to perform an experiment?
- Surveys – how to make them?
- Validity issues in performing experimental research – how to make a sound research?
- How to visualise data?
- Teaching methods: The course meetings provide a combination of regular lectures with interactive
tasks that require active student participation (analyzing data,
going together through some examples, etc.).
In order to pass this course, the participants have to successfully accomplish all home assignments (at least 50% of the maximum amount of points of each of them), which are to be given during the course. Moreover, each participant has to pass a final examination with at least 50% of the maximum amount of points. Students can get additional points for the lecture tasks (up to 10% of the final grade).
Lectures- Mondays 13-15 in room Cobol, ICT Building
- Wednesdays 10-12 in room Algol, ICT Building
- Study materials:
- Claes Wohlin, Per Runeson, Martin Höst, Magnus C. Ohlsson, Björn Regnell, Anders Wesslén, Experimentation in Software Engineering, Springer 2012
- Selected articles available in the Moodle2 course page