Austen Rainer

How do empirical software engineering researchers assess the credibility of practitioner-generated blog posts?

2019

Background: Blog posts offer potential benefits for research, but also present challenges. The use of blog posts in SE research is contentious for some members of the community. Also, there are no guidelines for evaluating …

Explainable Software Engineering: From State of the Practice to State of the Art

2025

The evidence-based paradigm has made software engineering (SE) more objective and less imprecise, facilitating extensive decision-making activities in software projects. However, by referring to the four-theory classificatory scheme, it can be observed that evidence-based SE …