382c Spring 2013 - Empirical Studies in SWE - DE Perry
	
Class web page: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/education/382c/
Office Hours: T 10-12

There will be no exams!
Paper Evaluations and Reports - TBD
Project Reports - TBD

Class participation	10%
Class Reports		40%
Class Projects		50%


Introduction and Overview
wk 1	lec 1		Introduction							--
	lec 2		Science & Softgware Engineering			RR 1, 12
wk 2	lec 3		Theories and Models Framework			Perry2011
wk 3	lec 4		Approaches. Questions, and Methods		RR 1, 2
	lec 5		Underlying theory and basic issues		RR 3, 4

Case Studies and Experimental Designs
wk 4-   lec 6		Case Studies						--
Wk 5	lec 7		Example evaluations of case studies		Papers 1, 2, 3
wk 6	lec 8		Experimental designs				RR 4
	lec 9		Quasi-experimental designs			RR 5
wk 7	lec 10		Factorial, blocking, repeated measures 		RR 16, 19, 20, 18

Problems and Issues
	lec 11	Errors and reliability					RR 3
wk 8	lec 12	Correlations and confounding variables			RR 14, 6
	lec 13	Artifacts	 					RR 6, 10

wks 9-12 - Paper Evaluation Reports

wks 13-15 - Project Reports