A Taxonomy of Evaluation Approaches in Software Engineering
Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Theodore Chaikalis, Georgia Paschalidou, Nikolaos Vesyropoulos, Christos K. Georgiadis, Emmanouil Stiakakis · 2015
As in any academic discipline, the evaluation of proposed methodologies and techniques is of vital importance for assessing the validity of novel ideas or findings in Software Engineering. Over the years, a large number of evaluation approaches have been employed, some of them drawn from other domains and other particularly developed for the needs of software engineering related research. In this paper we present the results of a survey of evaluation techniques that have been utilized in research papers that appeared in three leading software engineering journal and propose a taxonomy of evaluation approaches which might be helpful towards the organization of knowledge regarding the different strategies for the validation of research outcomes. The applicability of the proposed taxonomy has been evaluated by classifying the articles retrieved from ICSE'2012.