scholarly journals What Support do Systematic Reviews Provide for Evidence-informed Teaching about Software Engineering Practice?

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Budgen ◽  
Pearl Brereton ◽  
Nikki Williams ◽  
Sarah Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Engineering Practice

scholarly journals How systematic reviews cover practitioners' issues: A study on Stack Exchange communities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Cartaxo ◽  
Gustavo Pinto ◽  
Fernando Kamei ◽  
Danilo Monteiro ◽  
Fabio Queda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research To Practice ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Tertiary Study

Context: One of the goals of Evidence-Based Software Engineering is to leverage evidence from research to practice. However, some studies suggest this goal has not being fully accomplished. Objective: This paper proposes a strategy to assess how systematic reviews cover practitioners' issues in software engineering. Method: We selected 24 systematic reviews identified by a comprehensive tertiary study. Using search strings of the selected systematic reviews, we queried most relevant practitioners' issues on five active Stack Exchange communities, a professional and high-quality Question & Answer platform. After examining more than 1,800 issues, we investigated how findings of the selected systematic reviews could help to solve (i.e. cover) practitioners' issues. Results: After excluding false positives and duplicates, a total of 424 issues were considered related to the selected systematic reviews. This number corresponds to 1.75% of the 26,687 most relevant issues on the five Stack Exchange communities. Among these 424 issues, systematic reviews can successfully cover 14.1% (60) of them. Based on a qualitative analysis, we identified 45 recurrent issues spread in many software engineering areas. The most demanded topic is related to agile software development, with 15 recurrent issues identified and 127 practitioners' issues as a whole. Conclusions: An overall coverage rate of 14.1% reveals a good opportunity for conducting systematic reviews in software engineering to fill the gap of not covered issues. We also observed practitioners explicitly demanding for scientific empirical evidence, rich in context and oriented to specific target audiences. Finally, we also provided guidelines for researchers who want to conduct systematic reviews more connected with software engineering practice.

scholarly journals How systematic reviews cover practitioners' issues: A study on Stack Exchange communities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Cartaxo ◽  
Gustavo Pinto ◽  
Fernando Kamei ◽  
Danilo Monteiro ◽  
Fabio Queda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research To Practice ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Tertiary Study

Context: One of the goals of Evidence-Based Software Engineering is to leverage evidence from research to practice. However, some studies suggest this goal has not being fully accomplished. Objective: This paper proposes a strategy to assess how systematic reviews cover practitioners' issues in software engineering. Method: We selected 24 systematic reviews identified by a comprehensive tertiary study. Using search strings of the selected systematic reviews, we queried most relevant practitioners' issues on five active Stack Exchange communities, a professional and high-quality Question & Answer platform. After examining more than 1,800 issues, we investigated how findings of the selected systematic reviews could help to solve (i.e. cover) practitioners' issues. Results: After excluding false positives and duplicates, a total of 424 issues were considered related to the selected systematic reviews. This number corresponds to 1.75% of the 26,687 most relevant issues on the five Stack Exchange communities. Among these 424 issues, systematic reviews can successfully cover 14.1% (60) of them. Based on a qualitative analysis, we identified 45 recurrent issues spread in many software engineering areas. The most demanded topic is related to agile software development, with 15 recurrent issues identified and 127 practitioners' issues as a whole. Conclusions: An overall coverage rate of 14.1% reveals a good opportunity for conducting systematic reviews in software engineering to fill the gap of not covered issues. We also observed practitioners explicitly demanding for scientific empirical evidence, rich in context and oriented to specific target audiences. Finally, we also provided guidelines for researchers who want to conduct systematic reviews more connected with software engineering practice.

Design and Application of the Plug-in for Charging Facilities Monitoring Configuration Software

2013 ◽  
Vol 336-338 ◽  
pp. 1983-1987
Author(s):  
Bei Bei Zhang ◽  
Guang Ming Sun
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Configuration Software ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Model Structure ◽  
Plug And Play ◽  
Electric Vehicle Charging ◽  
Design And Application

Introduced the characteristics of monitoring for the electric vehicle charging facilities, analysis of the model structure and the plug-in structure. Determined software architecture of platform and plugin for charging facilities monitoring configuration software. Elaborated on the interface design, workflow and application examples of plug-in in the configuration software. Engineering practice has proved that the configuration software through the use of plug-in technology to improve the degree of modular, a powerful expansion function, plug-and-play and to meet the needs of different users.

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