Trends and perceptions of evidence-based software engineering research in Malaysia

Evidence-based research has been matured and established in many other disciplines such as in Medicine and Psychology. One of the methods that has been widely used to support evidence-based practices is the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method. The SLR is a review method that aims to provide un...

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Main Authors: Salleh, Norsaremah, Nordin, Azlin
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
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Published: IEEE 2015
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description Evidence-based research has been matured and established in many other disciplines such as in Medicine and Psychology. One of the methods that has been widely used to support evidence-based practices is the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method. The SLR is a review method that aims to provide unbiased or fair evaluation to existing research evidence. The aim of this study is to gather the trends of evidence-based software engineering (SE) research in Malaysia in particular to identify the usage of SLR method among researchers, academics or practitioners. Based on our tertiary study, we found only 19 published work utilizing evidence-based practices in Malaysia within SE and Computer Science related domains. We have also conducted a survey during SLR workshops for the purpose of gathering perceptions on using SLR. The survey was participated by 78 academics and researchers from five universities in Malaysia. Our findings show that researchers in this country are still at preliminary stage in practicing evidence-based approach. We believe that knowledge and skill on using SLR should be promoted to encourage more researchers to apply it in their research.
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spelling iium-399002017-09-19T02:18:28Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/39900/ Trends and perceptions of evidence-based software engineering research in Malaysia Salleh, Norsaremah Nordin, Azlin T55.4 Industrial engineering.Management engineering. Evidence-based research has been matured and established in many other disciplines such as in Medicine and Psychology. One of the methods that has been widely used to support evidence-based practices is the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method. The SLR is a review method that aims to provide unbiased or fair evaluation to existing research evidence. The aim of this study is to gather the trends of evidence-based software engineering (SE) research in Malaysia in particular to identify the usage of SLR method among researchers, academics or practitioners. Based on our tertiary study, we found only 19 published work utilizing evidence-based practices in Malaysia within SE and Computer Science related domains. We have also conducted a survey during SLR workshops for the purpose of gathering perceptions on using SLR. The survey was participated by 78 academics and researchers from five universities in Malaysia. Our findings show that researchers in this country are still at preliminary stage in practicing evidence-based approach. We believe that knowledge and skill on using SLR should be promoted to encourage more researchers to apply it in their research. IEEE 2015-01-26 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39900/11/39900-Trends%20and%20perceptions%20of%20evidence-based%20software%20engineering%20research%20in%20Malaysia.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39900/12/39900-Trends%20and%20perceptions%20of%20evidence-based%20software%20engineering%20research%20in%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf Salleh, Norsaremah and Nordin, Azlin (2015) Trends and perceptions of evidence-based software engineering research in Malaysia. In: 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for The Muslims World (ICT4M 2014), 17th-19th November 2014, Kuching, Sarawak. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7020597/ 10.1109/ICT4M.2014.7020597
spellingShingle T55.4 Industrial engineering.Management engineering.
Salleh, Norsaremah
Nordin, Azlin
Trends and perceptions of evidence-based software engineering research in Malaysia
title Trends and perceptions of evidence-based software engineering research in Malaysia
title_full Trends and perceptions of evidence-based software engineering research in Malaysia
title_fullStr Trends and perceptions of evidence-based software engineering research in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Trends and perceptions of evidence-based software engineering research in Malaysia
title_short Trends and perceptions of evidence-based software engineering research in Malaysia
title_sort trends and perceptions of evidence-based software engineering research in malaysia
topic T55.4 Industrial engineering.Management engineering.
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/39900/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/39900/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/39900/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/39900/11/39900-Trends%20and%20perceptions%20of%20evidence-based%20software%20engineering%20research%20in%20Malaysia.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/39900/12/39900-Trends%20and%20perceptions%20of%20evidence-based%20software%20engineering%20research%20in%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf