44 Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Reviews
The nature of the research questions depends very much on the type of
review being carried out.
For systematic reviews, questions are about evaluating a particular soft-
ware engineering technology or research process. The term ‘technology’ is used
in a broad sense here to encompass software engineering methods or processes,
or particular management-related characteristics such as the attributes of soft-
ware engineers or of software engineering teams. The research questions are
formulated in one of two ways:
• As a quantitative comparison of two (or more) technologies to determine
which one is more effective or efficient (or is in some other way ‘better’)
than the others within some specific ...