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Title	Experimentation in software engineering: A new framework
Authors	Bakry, W-E. Mohamed, Sadler C.J. and Law D.
Type	Conference paper
Abstract	ABSTRACT The absence of a systematic and flexible evaluation methodology, that can characterise the effect of methods and tools on the development process, has made any process improvement program a difficult task. The DESMET project aims to develop and validate an evaluation methodology which will quantify the effect of the use of development methods and tools. DESMET (Determining an Evaluation Methodology for Software Methods and Tools) is a project partly funded by the DTI (IEDS ATP/1 150) and SERC (GR/F 38556). The collaborators in the project are the National Computing Centre, GEC-Marconi Software Systems, Racal Research Ltd and The University of North London. The first phase of the project has critically surveyed current evaluation approaches which were classified as 'quantitative' or 'qualitative'. It was concluded that DESMET must support both types and provide guidelines to identify which method is appropriate to the particular circumstances of the user. To achieve this, the design of DESMET was based on a multi-module architecture. The paper outlines the architecture of DESMET and the rationale behind it. Formal experimentation is one of the quantitative techniques that DESMET will support. The paper presents a new framework for conducting formal experiments in a software engineering environment. The paper will also discuss how managerial and sociological issues can affect formal experimentation in software engineering.
Keywords	Empirical Software Engineering, DESMET Project, Evaluation Methodology, Process Improvement, Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation
Year	1993
Conference	1st International Conference on Software Quality Management (SQM 1993)
Publisher	WIT Press
Accepted author manuscript	File Access Level Open (open metadata and files)
Publisher's version	SQM93031FU (1).pdf File Access Level Open (open metadata and files)
Published	Apr 1993
ISSN	1743-3517
Book title	Software Quality Management: Management, Quality Systems and Information Technology
Book editor	Ross, M.
	Staples, G.
	Brebbia, C.A.
ISBN	9781853122255
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.2495/SQM930191
Web address (URL) of conference proceedings	https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-information-and-communication-technologies/4/13506
Web address (URL)	https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-information-and-communication-technologies/4/13506

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