Guidelines for Conducting Software Engineering Research

Stol, Klaas-Jan; Fitzgerald, Brian

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32489-6_2

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An Architectural Model of a Software Module for Piloting UAV Constellations

Mijač¹,

Tomaš²,

Stapić³

2022

TEM Journal

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Technology behind unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) has been rapidly advancing in the recent years. This propelled the adoption rate and widened the range of UAV uses, such as in sport activities, cartography, surveillance, transportation, and military. While using single, individually controlled UAVs is already very common, using UAV constellations is becoming increasingly popular due to advantages in flexibility, scalability and sensing power. However, the use of UAV constellations remains limited to very specific applications due to number of challenges involved. One of the challenges is the lack of generic software system that would allow controlling UAV constellations in different types of flight missions. In order to address this problem, we propose an architectural model of a software module for UAV constellation piloting.

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An Architectural Model of a Software Module for Piloting UAV Constellations

Mijač¹,

Tomaš²,

Stapić³

2022

TEM Journal

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Teaching Empirical Methods at Eindhoven University of Technology

Serebrenik,

Cassee

2024

Handbook on Teaching Empirical Software Engineering

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Guidelines for using financial incentives in software-engineering experimentation

Krüger,

Çalıklı,

Bershadskyy

et al. 2024

Empir Software Eng

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Context: Empirical studies with human participants (e.g., controlled experiments) are established methods in Software Engineering (SE) research to understand developers’ activities or the pros and cons of a technique, tool, or practice. Various guidelines and recommendations on designing and conducting different types of empirical studies in SE exist. However, the use of financial incentives (i.e., paying participants to compensate for their effort and improve the validity of a study) is rarely mentioned Objective: In this article, we analyze and discuss the use of financial incentives for human-oriented SE experimentation to derive corresponding guidelines and recommendations for researchers. Specifically, we propose how to extend the current state-of-the-art and provide a better understanding of when and how to incentivize. Method: We captured the state-of-the-art in SE by performing a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) involving 105 publications from six conferences and five journals published in 2020 and 2021. Then, we conducted an interdisciplinary analysis based on guidelines from experimental economics and behavioral psychology, two disciplines that research and use financial incentives. Results: Our results show that financial incentives are sparsely used in SE experimentation, mostly as completion fees. Especially performance-based and task-related financial incentives (i.e., payoff functions) are not used, even though we identified studies for which the validity may benefit from tailored payoff functions. To tackle this issue, we contribute an overview of how experiments in SE may benefit from financial incentivisation, a guideline for deciding on their use, and 11 recommendations on how to design them. Conclusions: We hope that our contributions get incorporated into standards (e.g., the ACM SIGSOFT Empirical Standards), helping researchers understand whether the use of financial incentives is useful for their experiments and how to define a suitable incentivisation strategy.

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Guidelines for Conducting Software Engineering Research

Cited by 15 publications

References 46 publications

An Architectural Model of a Software Module for Piloting UAV Constellations

An Architectural Model of a Software Module for Piloting UAV Constellations

Teaching Empirical Methods at Eindhoven University of Technology

Guidelines for using financial incentives in software-engineering experimentation

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