Over the last two decades, much attention has been paid to the area of goal-oriented
requirements engineering (GORE), where goals are used as a useful conceptualization to …

Context Previous studies have raised concerns about the analysis and meta-analysis of
crossover experiments and we were aware of several families of experiments that used …

Context: Families of experiments (ie, groups of experiments with the same goal) are on the
rise in Software Engineering (SE). Selecting unsuitable aggregation techniques to analyze …

Understanding the users' needs is important for designing an application that provides a
good usage experience. One can use design thinking (DT) to help identify those needs …

Context: In any discipline, replications of empirical studies are necessary to consolidate the
acquired knowledge. In Software Engineering, replications have been reported since the …

Recent approaches have investigated assisting users in making early trade-off decisions
when the future evolution of project elements is uncertain. These approaches have demon …

Context Critical systems in application domains such as automotive, railway, aerospace, and
healthcare are required to comply with safety standards. The understanding of the safety …

Context: There is a lack of empirical evidence on the differences between model-driven
development (MDD), where code is automatically derived from conceptual models, and …

Background Examples of questionable statistical practice, when published in high quality
software engineering (SE) journals, may lead to novice researchers adopting incorrect …

Objective: The main objective of our study is to assess whether the use of UML (Unified
Modeling Language) object diagrams improves comprehensibility of software design when …