Informal Aggregation Technique for Software Engineering Experiments
One of the bases for development and standardization in any discipline is continuous empirical verification of knowledge. Thus, empirical replication is required to validate or establish experimental results. When these replications occur, there is also a need to synthesize the different results for a common result. Software Engineering experiments usually fall short of the requirements of the meta-analysis techniques currently in use for this purpose either in number, report or even design. Therefore, there is a need for a less rigorous technique that could serve even as a temporary tool but suitable to software engineering studies and also usable. This study presents an alternative less rigorous aggregation techniques that systematically synthesize the statistic ANOVA results by grouping treatments with seemingly equal level of evidence together. Each group is then ranked on an ordinal scale, grouped and interpreted.
Keywords: Empirical software engineering, aggregation technique, informal meta-analysis, SE experiments
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Babatunde K. Olorisade
Olorisade B. K. is a Lecturer of the Mathematical and Computer Sciences Department, Fountain University Osogbo. He has double M. Sc. Degree in Software Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain and Blekinge Tekniska Hӧgskola (BTH), Sweden. He has B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan and currently on his PhD programme on Effectiveness of Software Evaluation Techniques at the school. His current research interest includes: empirical/search based Software Engineering, software measurement, software quality, e-commerce, security and cloud computing.
Babatunde K. Olorisade
Olorisade B. K. is a Lecturer of the Mathematical and Computer Sciences Department, Fountain University Osogbo. He has double M. Sc. Degree in Software Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain and Blekinge Tekniska Hӧgskola (BTH), Sweden. He has B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan and currently on his PhD programme on Effectiveness of Software Evaluation Techniques at the school. His current research interest includes: empirical/search based Software Engineering, software measurement, software quality, e-commerce, security and cloud computing.
