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Replication is an essential part of the experimental paradigm and is considered the main component of scientific knowledge. There are many open issues that must be addressed before the replication process can be successfully formalized in empirical software engineering research. The software engineering community learns a great deal from performing replications, reading reports of replications performed by others and aggregating the results of replications to draw deeper conclusions that would otherwise be possible. Experimental replications need to be published in the peer-reviewed literature to have scientific value comparable to that of other types of empirical studies. Significant efforts have been made to draw attention to the importance of publishing replications to advance the experimental research paradigm within software engineering and to provide a number of examples of such replications

Abstract:In recent years, Green Information Technology (IT) has grown enormously, and has become an increasingly important and essential area, providing multiple benefits to the organizations that focus on it. It is for this reason that there is an increasing number of organizations embracing the idea of Green IT. However, Green IT is a very young field and each organization implements it according to its own criteria. That is why it is extremely important to develop the bases or best practices of governance and management that allow organizations to implement Green IT practices correctly and standardize them. In this article, we propose the "Governance and Management Framework for Green IT", establishing the characteristics needed to carry out the governance and management of Green IT in an organization, and perform audits in this area. This framework is based on COBIT 5, which is a general framework for the control and audit of different areas related to IT. The results obtained through different validations demonstrate the validity and usefulness of the framework developed in the field of Green IT, providing a complete guide to the organizations in their efforts to implement, control and/or improve the practices of Green IT in their processes and day-to-day operations.

Background Assessing and communicating software engineering research can be challenging. Design science is recognized as an appropriate research paradigm for applied research, but is rarely explicitly used as a way to present planned or achieved research contributions in software engineering. Applying the design science lens to software engineering research may improve the assessment and communication of research contributions. Aim The aim of this study is 1) to understand whether the design science lens helps summarize and assess software engineering research contributions, and 2) to characterize different types of design science contributions in the software engineering literature. Method In previous research, we developed a visual abstract template, summarizing the core constructs of the design science paradigm. In this study, we use this template in a review of a set of 38 award winning software engineering publications to extract, analyze and characterize their design science contributions. Results We identified five clusters of papers, classifying them according to their different types of design science contributions. Conclusions The design science lens helps emphasize the theoretical contribution of research output-in terms of technological rules-and reflect on the practical relevance, novelty and rigor of the rules proposed by the research.