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2001 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Why Experiment?

The Role of Experimentation in Scientific and Technological Research

Authors : Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno

Published in: Basics of Software Engineering Experimentation

Publisher: Springer US

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Chapter 1 briefly described some ideas about the need for experimentation in SE. This chapter discusses in more detail this question. In particular, section 2.2. analyses what use the process of experimentation is to any scientific and engineering discipline, that is, analyses how scientific experimentation contributes to the development of a science or branch of engineering. We will see how these ideas are also applicable to a scientific discipline to be used for software development.

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Title
Why Experiment?
Authors
Natalia Juristo
Ana M. Moreno
Copyright Year
2001
Publisher
Springer US
Book
Basics of Software Engineering Experimentation

Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-5011-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4757-3304-4

Copyright Year: 2001

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3304-4_2

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