Evidence-based Software Engineering
About the book
This book discusses what is currently
known about software engineering, based on an analysis of all the publicly
available data. This aim is not as ambitious as it sounds,
because there is not a great deal of data publicly available.
The intent is to provide material that is useful to professional
developers working in industry; until recently researchers in software
engineering have been more interested in vanity work, promoted by ego
and bluster.
The material is organized in two parts, the first covering software
engineering and the second the statistics likely to be needed for the
analysis of software engineering data.
Available downloads
The complete book: 8 November 20, version 1.0,
and
mobile friendly pdf (layout can be shaky).
The code+data
on Github (around 460M).
View all figures; includes links to
original paper for the data and source code on Github.
Reporting issues using Github is good
for general discussion, and makes it hard for me to ignore them (which
I might do with email).
All referenced papers, and the
bibtex file.
Slides and
stuff for the workshops based on the second half of the book.
Discord channel
Invitation to Evidence based software engineering channel.
Data discovered since publication
2022
2023
2024
How to cite
The bibtex citation for the book is:
@Book{Jones_20b,
author = "Derek M. Jones",
title = "Evidence-based Software Engineering: based on the publicly available data",
publisher = "Knowledge Software, Ltd",
ISBN = "978-1-8382913-0-3",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
data = "website",
}
Available in dead tree form
Currently sold out.
Amazon in the UK or USA.
Major changes
8 Nov 20 Release version 1.0
30 Jun 20 Polished everything, plus more data
29 Feb 20 Reworked source code chapter, and updated some other chapters, plus more data
29 Dec 19 Reworked reliability chapter, and updated earlier chapters
27 Oct 19 Reworked projects chapter
29 Aug 19 Reworked ecosystems chapter
30 May 19 Reworked cognitive capitalism chapter
24 Nov 18 Polished/corrected/fiddled with the eight statistical analysis related chapters
31 Jul 18 Source code chapter released
3 Apr 18 Reliability chapter released
26 Nov 17 Tweaks, plus updated with newly arrived data
27 Oct 17 Projects chapter released
17 Jul 17 Ecosystems chapter released
26 Mar 17 Cognitive capitalism chapter released
29 Jan 17 Human cognitive characteristics chapter released
17 Oct 16 Statistical analysis material released
Please send any feedback to ESEUR "at" knosof dot co dot uk
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