1 Improving the Mechanisms for Replicating Software Engineering Experiments
Natália Juristo, Sira Vegas, Ana M. Moreno, Patricio Letelier · 2015
As in other spheres of science and technology, the replication of experiments in SE is an indispensable task. However, replication is extremely difficult in SE. This is primarily due to the complexity of the context in which experiments are run. The success in accurately describing the context of an experiment will be later reflected in the possibility of combining the results of the replications. If the context is not properly characterised, it will be impossible to isolate the variables causing any discrepancies between the results of the different replications. In this paper, we have used and then compared the instruments for transmitting information about experiments proposed in the literature to conduct replications of SE experiments. Based on this experience, we propose an improved instrument.