EBSE for Students

Lecture Notes

The material on this page is intended for student use, and these notes provide a set of brief introductions to a number of themes related to both primary and secondary studies. The notes were originally crafted to support lectures on these topics, so have been deliberately kept to a limit of two sides of A4. While they are made freely available here, if you make use of them, please include an acknowledgment for our web site.

• The Empirical Context
• Surveys
• Controlled (Laboratory) Experiments
• Case Studies
• Secondary Studies and Systematic Literature Reviews

Other Materials

Students seeking to learn more about evidence-based software engineering or to apply it for their own studies may also find the following resources useful:

• Guidelines for conducting systematic literature reviews and other evidence-based studies.
• The glossary, a comprehensive set of EBSE terms and definitions
• Templates to assist in creating study protocols.
• Templates to assist with data extraction in reports of primary studies.