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Empirical Research in Software Engineering
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Empirical Research in Software Engineering

by Ruchika Malhotra
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
498 pages
18h 20m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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346 Empirical Research in Software Engineering
TABLE 8.5 (Continued)
Construct Validity Threats
Threat Type Threat Description Threat Mitigation
Studies that
Encounter
TheseThreats
Measurement bias Incomplete fault data may create bias as only xed
faults are considered.
The study should account for bias because of incomplete
faults.
N: S14; S18; S33;
S34; S41.
Appropriate threshold values for metrics are subjective
in nature. Thus, results may not hold or change on
other threshold values leading to bias.
As threshold values are subjective in nature, the study
should validate other threshold values to increase the
signicance of the results.
N: S14, ...
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