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in Chapter 4, it is necessary to specify what is meant by the term ‘better’ and
under what conditions any defined relationship might hold.
In this section, we present some examples of the research questions re-
searchers have used in software engineering experiments and the detailed hy-
potheses relating to those questions. We have tried to select these based on the
variety of the ways the research questions were tested and used, and also that
they are studying topics that should be reasonably familiar to most software
engineers and students.
16.3.1 Pair designing
There are many experimental studies that look at pair programming, often
using student participants. However, the paper by Canfora, ...