From Craft to Science: The Road Ahead for Empirical Software Engineering Research KU Leuven
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. Empirical software engineering (SE) research is often criticized for poorly designed and reported studies, a lack of replications to build up bodies of knowledge, and little practical relevance. In this paper, we discuss issues in empirical software architecture research as an illustration of these issues in one subfield of SE and as a step towards better understanding empirical research in SE in ...