382C Syllabus Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (title></head><body> <pre>382c - Empirical Studies in SWE - DE Perry Class web page: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/education/382c/ Mid-Term Report: due Thursday, 8 March Individual report: read and critically evaluate an empirical SE paper - Lecture 5 will provide some examples of evaluating empirical studies Final Project Report: due last day of class, Thursday, 3 May Experimental Design Project (team of 2 or 3): more later. There will be no exams. Introduction and Underlying Theory lec 1 Introduction -- lec 2 Science, SE Research and ES -- lec 3 Empirical Studies RR 1 lec 4 A Theory/Model of ESE -- lec 5 Example Evaluations Papers 1, 2 and 3 lec 6 Basic & Underlying Theory RR 2 lec 7 Systematic Pluralism RR 12 lec 8 Statistical Power RR 19 Empirical Design lec 9 Strategies RR 4 lec 10 Reliability RR 3 lec 11 Validity RR 3 lec 12 Structure & Logic RR 4 lec 13 Quasi-Experimental Logic RR 5 lec 14 Sampling RR 10 lec 15 Confounding Variables RR 6 lec 16 Artifacts RR 6 lec 17 Case Studies -- Measurement and Analysis lec 18 Gathering Data RR 7 lec 19 Systematic Observatiuon RR 8 lec 20 Self Reports RR 9 lec 21 Displaying Data RR 13 lec 22 Correlation RR 14 lec 23 Comparing Means RR 15 lec 24 Factorial Designs RR 16 lec 25 Blocking RR 20 lec 26 Repeated Measures RR 18 </pre></body></html>