An exploratory study regarding the ease-of-use, comprehensibility, and usefulness of the Empirical Standards Checklists

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dc.contributor.authorCupryk, Cassandra
dc.contributor.supervisorStorey, Margaret-Anne
dc.contributor.supervisorLarios, Enrique
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-21T21:11:50Z
dc.date.available2022-12-21T21:11:50Z
dc.date.copyright2022en_US
dc.date.issued2022-12-21
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Computer Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractContext/Background: Novice researchers have stated that being provided with guidelines for reviewing empirical research papers would be helpful. The Empirical Standards Checklist Generator is a tool that can generate a variety of Empirical Standards Checklists. An Empirical Standards Checklist contains the core criteria that can be used to review Software Engineering empirical papers. Moreover, my exploratory study aims to determine whether novice researchers could benefit from using the Empirical Standards Checklists to help them review Software Engineering empirical papers. Objective: To investigate whether novice researchers perceive the Empirical Standards Checklists as easy to understand, easy to use, and useful for reviewing empirical papers. Methods: Seven participants completed a survey to evaluate the Empirical Standards Checklists and then participated in a group discussion. During the survey, the participants used the appropriate Empirical Standard Checklists to review a qualitative survey paper and a repository mining paper. They then highlighted the items from the Empirical Standards Checklists that were difficult to comprehend. The participants also answered survey questions that exposed their perceptions of the Empirical Standards Checklists' comprehensibility, ease-of-use, and usefulness. Results: The majority of the participants had positive perceptions of the Empirical Standards Checklists' comprehensibility, ease-of-use, and usefulness. Conclusion: This exploratory study demonstrates that the Empirical Standards Checklist is a promising new tool for reviewing Software Engineering empirical research papers.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14579
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectempirical standards checklisten_US
dc.subjectempirical standards checklistsen_US
dc.subjectusefulnessen_US
dc.subjectease-of-useen_US
dc.subjectcomprehensibilityen_US
dc.subjectperceptionsen_US
dc.subjectsurveyen_US
dc.subjectgroup discussionen_US
dc.subjectexploratory studyen_US
dc.titleAn exploratory study regarding the ease-of-use, comprehensibility, and usefulness of the Empirical Standards Checklistsen_US
dc.typeprojecten_US

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