Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE) is an area of
research and development that seeks to apply natural language processing (NLP) …

Context: Several tertiary studies have criticized the reporting of software engineering
secondary studies. Objective: Our objective is to identify guidelines for reporting software …

Highlights•Identifies critical sampling challenges in theory driven design studies.•Describes
eight key sampling considerations.•Proposes a structured sample design process.•Illustrates …

As the fields of learning analytics and learning design mature, the convergence and
synergies between the two are becoming an important area for research. This paper intends …

Industry 4.0 technologies are transforming supply chain management from a linear model to
what is known as supply chain 4.0, where operations are integrated, and flows stream in …

A variety of research methods and techniques are available to SE researchers, and while
several overviews exist, there is consistency neither in the research methods covered nor in …

Based on their own experiences of in-depth case studies of software projects in international
corporations, in this book the authors present detailed practical guidelines on the …

This book provides guidelines for doing design science in information systems and software
engineering research. In design science, we iterate over two activities: designing an artifact …

Leveraging the pull request model of social coding platforms, Open Source Software (OSS)
integrators review developers' contributions, checking aspects like license, code quality, and …

Case study is a suitable research methodology for software engineering research since it
studies contemporary phenomena in its natural context. However, the understanding of what …