Abstract Context Systematic Literature Review (SLR) studies aim to identify relevant primary
papers, extract the required data, analyze, and synthesize results to gain further and broader …

Context: Variability (ie, the ability of software systems or artifacts to be adjusted for different
contexts) became a key property of many systems. Objective: We analyze existing research …

As a type of anti-pattern, test smells are defined as poorly designed tests and their presence
may negatively affect the quality of test suites and production code. Test smells are the …

Systematic literature studies have received much attention in empirical software engineering
in recent years. They have become a powerful tool to collect and structure reported …

Background The labour intensive and error prone nature of the systematic review process
has led to the development and use of a range of tools to provide automated support. Aim …

The main contribution of this paper is the development of a digital platform to support
researchers in conducting systematic literature reviews (SLRs). The digital platform is able to …

Background: Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have become an established
methodology in software engineering (SE) research however they can be very time …

CONTEXT: Variability is the ability of a software artifact (eg, a system, component) to be
adapted for a specific context, in a preplanned manner. Variability not only affects …

Objective To identify estimates of time taken to search grey literature in support of health
sciences systematic reviews and to identify searcher or systematic review characteristics that …

Conducting a systematic literature review (SLR) is difficult and time-consuming for an
experienced researcher, and even more so for a novice graduate student. With a better …