Estructuras metodológicas de revisiones sistemáticas de literatura en Ingeniería de Software: un estudio de mapeo sistemático

Abstract

Systematic reviews of the literature have become an important methodology within software engineering research. In applying this methodology the critical aspects are related to achieving an appropriate design and execution, as well as an effective search strategy. Hence the need to find a design, implementation and evaluation approaches to optimally extract information from the scientific literature. The main objective of this research is to analyze the methodological structure of the systematic reviews of literature carried out in Software Engineering evidencing the evolution of the different stages considered. For this, a systematic mapping study was carried out using the publications in the last 8 years in the Scopus and Wos databases. The study yielded 13 reviews focusing mainly on Quality and Development. In addition, the results show that although the reviews use a similar methodology, few consider an aggregation of evidence. The main conclusions of the study point out that researchers prefer to carry out reviews within very limited areas within the IS such as the area of development and quality, as well as preferring non-exhaustive investigations such as systematic mapping over Systematic reviews.