
58 Empirical Research in Software Engineering
2.7 SRs in Software Engineering
There are many SRs conducted in software engineering. Table2.18summarizes few of
them with author details, year and review topics, the number of studies reviewed (study
size), whether quality assessment of the studies was performed (QA used), data synthesis
methods, and conclusions.
TABLE 2.18
Systematic Reviews in Software Engineering
Authors Year
Research
Topics
Study
Size
QA
Used
Data
Synthesis
Methods Conclusions
Kitchenham
etal.
2007 Cost estimation
models,
cross-company
data, within-
company data
10 Yes Tables • Strict quality control on
data collection is not
sufcient ...