Martin Höst

TL;DR: This paper aims at providing an introduction to case study methodology and guidelines for researchers conducting case studies and readers studying reports of such studies, and presents recommended practices and evaluated checklists for researchers and readers of case study research.

TL;DR: The purpose of Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction is to introduce students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners to experimentation and experimental evaluation with a focus on software engineering, and to provide guidelines for performing experiments evaluating methods, techniques and tools in software engineering.

TL;DR: This is the first software engineering specific book on the case study research method and presents detailed practical guidelines on the preparation, conduct, design and reporting of case studies of software engineering.

TL;DR: It is found that the differences are only minor, and it is concluded that software engineering students may be used instead of professional software developers under certain conditions.

TL;DR: This chapter provides a motivation for the use of empirical methods in software engineering research, and a brief introduction to four research methods: controlled experiments, case studies, surveys and post-mortem analyses.