Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research
Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research
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受益于软件工程研究中的灰色文献
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2019
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A. Rainer
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V. Garousi;M. Felderer;M. Mäntylä;A. Rainer
研究人员通常最信任同行评议的已发表信息，如期刊和会议论文。相比之下，软件工程(SE)从业者通常没有时间、途径或专业知识来审查此类出版物并从中受益。因此，从业者更有可能求助于他们信任的其他信息来源，例如行业杂志、在线博客文章、调查结果或技术报告，统称为灰色文献(GL)。此外，从业者还分享了他们作为GL的想法和经验，这可以作为研究的宝贵数据来源。虽然GL本身在SE中并不是一个新的主题，但在SE中使用、受益和综合GL的知识是经验SE研究中的一个当代主题，我们正在看到研究人员越来越多地受益于GL中可用的知识。本章的目的是提供关于SE中GL的概述，以及关于SE研究人员如何有效地使用和受益于大量GL中可用的知识和证据的见解。
Researchers generally place the most trust in peer-reviewed, published information, such as journals and conference papers. By contrast, software engineering (SE) practitioners typically do not have the time, access or expertise to review and benefit from such publications. As a result, practitioners are more likely to turn to other sources of information that they trust, e.g., trade magazines, online blog-posts, survey results or technical reports, collectively referred to as Grey Literature (GL). Furthermore, practitioners also share their ideas and experiences as GL, which can serve as a valuable data source for research. While GL itself is not a new topic in SE, using, benefitting and synthesizing knowledge from the GL in SE is a contemporary topic in empirical SE research and we are seeing that researchers are increasingly benefitting from the knowledge available within GL. The goal of this chapter is to provide an overview to GL in SE, together with insights on how SE researchers can effectively use and benefit from the knowledge and evidence available in the vast amount of GL.