期刊名称：International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)
印刷版ISSN：0976-2221
电子版ISSN：0975-9018
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：13
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：To impact industry, researchers developing technologies in academia need to provide tangible evidence ofthe advantages of using them. Nowadays, Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has become a prominentmethodology in evidence-based researches. Although adopting SLR in software engineering does not go farin practice, it has been resulted in valuable researches and is going to be more common. However, digitallibraries and scientific databases as the best research resources do not provide enough mechanism forSLRs especially in software engineering. On the other hand, any loss of data may change the SLR resultsand leads to research bias. Accordingly, the search process and evidence collection in SLR is a criticalpoint. This paper provides some tips to enhance the SLR process. The main contribution of this work ispresenting a federated search tool which provides an automatic integrated search mechanism in wellknownSoftware Engineering databases. Results of case study show that this approach not only reducesrequired time to do SLR and facilitate its search process, but also improves its reliability and results in theincreasing trend to use SLRs.
关键词：Evidence Based Research; Systematic Literature Review; Federated search; Software Engineering
