Developing Search Strategies for Detecting Relevant Experiments for Systematic Reviews

Aranha, E.; Borba, Paulo

doi:10.1109/esem.2007.19

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“…Even though it was possible to do full text search in IEEE Xplore we decided against it because of several reasons. First, using a full text search reduces the precision of the search quite dramatically [58]. Our experience with the other databases confirms this, and a large number of the publications included in Stage 2 were not within the scope of this literature review.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…To avoid overlooking relevant publications, we opted for a search strategy with high sensitivity [58]. This means that instead of using keywords like "commercial open source" and "open source in industry", we conducted all searches using the keywords "open source" (including quotation marks) and searched the digital libraries using all fields, including full text where available.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The 112 papers from Stage 5 constitute only 7.3% of the papers included in Stage 2. Therefore, Dieste and Padua [58] recommend searching through only abstracts and titles as a good searching strategy. Finally, we randomly reviewed a significant amount of the papers not included in the initial metadata search.…”

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Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

Hauge¹,

Ayala²,

Conradi³

2010

Information and Software Technology

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Context: Open source software (OSS) is changing the way organizations develop, acquire, use, and commercialize software. Objective: This paper seeks to identify how organizations adopt OSS, classify the literature according to these ways of adopting OSS, and with a focus on software development evaluate the research on adoption of OSS in organizations. Method: Based on the systematic literature review method we reviewed publications from 24 journals and seven conference and workshop proceedings, published between 1998 and 2008. From a population of 24289 papers, we identified 112 papers which provide empirical evidence on how organizations actually adopt OSS. Results: We show that adopting OSS involves more than simply using OSS products. We moreover provide a classification framework consisting of six distinctly different ways in which organizations adopt OSS. This framework is used to illustrate some of the opportunities and challenges organizations meet when approaching OSS, to show that OSS can be adopted successfully in different ways, and to organize and review existing research. We find that this research does not sufficiently describe the context of the organizations studied. It is furthermore fragmented and fails to benefit fully from related research fields. Finally, we present directions for future research.

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Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

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“…Table 1 shows the final list of keywords used to cover as many variations of the same term as possible. We intentionally adopted many keywords having low precision but high recall [12] and subsequently complemented our analysis by including all the papers published in ICGSE'13. Table 1.…”

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Research in Global Software Engineering: A Systematic Snapshot

Raza

MacDonell

Clear

2013

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. This paper reports our extended analysis of the recent literature addressing global software engineering (GSE), using a new Systematic Snapshot Mapping (SSM) technique. The primary purpose of this work is to understand what issues are being addressed and how research is being carried out in GSEand comparatively, what work is not being conducted. We carried out the analysis in two stages. In the first stage we analyzed 275 papers published between January 2011 and June 2012, and in the second stage we augmented our analysis by considering a further 26 papers (from the 2013 International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE'13). Our results reveal that, currently, GSE studies are focused on management-and infrastructure-related factors, using principally evaluative research approaches. Most of the studies are conducted at the organizational level, mainly using methods such as interviews, surveys, field studies and case studies. The USA, India and China are major players in GSE, with USA-India collaborations being the most frequently studied, followed by USA-China. While a considerable number of GSE-related studies have been published since January 2011 they are currently quite narrowly focused, on exploratory research and explanatory theories, and the critical research paradigm has been untouched. An absence of formulative research, experimentation and simulation, and a related focus on evaluative approaches, all suggest that existing tools, methods and approaches from related fields are being tested in the GSE context, even though these may not be inherently applicable to the additional scale and complexity of GSE.

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“…Table 1 shows the final list of keywords used to cover as many variations of the same term as possible. As this area of research is still maturing, we intentionally adopted many keywords having low precision but high recall (Dieste and Padua, 2007). …”

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Topics and Treatments in Global Software Engineering Research - A Systematic Snapshot

2013

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

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Abstract:This study presents an analysis of the most recent literature addressing global software engineering (GSE). The primary purpose is to understand what issues are being addressed and how research is being carried out in GSE -and comparatively, what work is not being conducted. We examine the current state of GSE research using a new Systematic Snapshot Mapping (SSM) technique. We analysed 275 papers published between January 2011 and June 2012 in peer-reviewed conferences, journals and workshops. Our results provide a coarse-grained overview of the very recent literature addressing GSE, by classifying studies into predefined categories. We also follow and extend several prior classifications to support our synthesis of the data. Our results reveal that, currently, GSE studies are focused on Management and Infrastructure related factors rather than Human or Distance related factors, using principally evaluative research approaches.Most of the studies are conducted at the organizational level, mainly using methods such as interviews, surveys, field studies and case studies. We use inter-country network analysis to confirm that the USA and India are major players in GSE, with USA-India collaborations being the most frequently studied, followed by USA-China. Specific groups of countries have dominated the reported GSE project locations (and the locations of research authors). In contrast, regions including Central Asia, South Asia (except India), Africa and South East Asia have not been covered in these studies. While a considerable number of GSE-related studies have been published they are currently quite narrowly focused on exploratory research and explanatory theories. The critical research paradigm has been untouched, perhaps due to a lack of criteria and principles for carrying out such research in GSE. An absence of formulative research, experimentation and simulation, and a comparative focus on evaluative approaches, all suggest that existing tools, methods and approaches from related fields are being tested in the GSE context. However, these solutions may not scale to cover GSE-related issues or may overlook factors/facets specific to GSE.

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Developing Search Strategies for Detecting Relevant Experiments for Systematic Reviews

Cited by 80 publications

References 8 publications

Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

Research in Global Software Engineering: A Systematic Snapshot

Topics and Treatments in Global Software Engineering Research - A Systematic Snapshot

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