Empirical Software Engineering plays an important role in Software Engineering Research. Our group focuses on the research of emprical software engineering methodology, and achieve some outcomes over the data sources, data collection methods, data synthesis methods and so on.

List of Outcomes

Publications

L. Yang, H. Zhang, H. Shen, X. Huang, X. Zhou, G. Rong and D. Shao, Quality assessment in systematic literature reviews: A software engineering perspective, Information and Software Technology, 130:106397, 2021.
He Zhang, Xin Zhou, Xin Huang, Huang Huang, Muhammad Ali Babar. “An evidence-based inquiry into the use of grey literature in software engineering.” 2020 IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). IEEE, 2020.
X. Zhou, How to Treat the Use of Grey Literature in Software Engineering. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP). 2020.
H. Zhang, X. Huang, X. Zhou, H. Huang, and M. Ali Babar, “Ethnographic Research in Software Engineering: A Critical Review and Checklist”, in Proceedings of 27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’19), Tallinn, Estonia, 2019.
C. Fu, H. Zhang, X. Huang, X. Zhou and Z. Li, “A Review of Meta-ethnographies in Software Engineering“, in Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE’19), Copenhagen, Denmark, ACM, 2019, pp.68-77.
X. Huang, H. Zhang, X. Zhou, M. Ali Babar and S. Yang, “Synthesizing Qualitative Research in Software Engineering: A Critical Review“, in Proceedings of 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’18), Gothenburg, Sweden: ACM, 2018, pp.1207-1218.
X. Zhou, Y. Jin, H. Zhang, S. Li and X. Huang, “A Map of Threats to Validity of Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering“, in Proceedings of 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC’16), Hamilton, New Zealand: IEEE, 2016, pp.153-160.