Practical similarities and differences between Systematic Literature Reviews and Systematic Mappings: a tertiary study
Bianca Minetto Napoleão, Katia Romero Felizardo, Érica Ferreira de Souza, Nandamudi Lankalapalli Vijaykumar · Proceedings/Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 2017
Background: Several researchers have reported their experiences in applying secondary studies in Software Engineering (SE), however, there is a lack of studies discussing the distinction between Systematic Mappings (SMs) and Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs).Aims: The objective of this paper is to present the results of a tertiary study conducted to collect and evaluate evidence to better understand similarities and differences between SLRs and SMs related to four aspects: research question, search string, search strategy and quality assessment.Method: We identified 170 secondary studies that were reviewed to answer a set of Research Questions (RQ) related to the practical conduction of secondary studies in SE.Results: Results show that both SLRs and SMs have generic RQs, broad search strings, and adopt automatic search as search strategy.However, quality assessment has been more widely adopted in SLRs.Conclusions: In practice, only the quality assessment is conducted differently in SLRs and SMs.