A process-oriented environment for the execution of software engineering experiments

Abstract

Over the last decade, the software engineering community has been discussing how to better support the planning, execution and analysis of controlled experiments. There is a growing interesting in this topic because it is a mean to meet empirical evidence facilitating the work of researchers. In this paper, we present a process-oriented environment proposed to support the conduction of controlled experiments in software engineering. We describe the desired requirements for such kind of experimental supporting environment and analyze how our experimental environment addresses these requirements.