Identifying, categorizing and mitigating threats to validity in software engineering secondary studies

• Published in: Information and software technology Vol. 106; pp. 201 - 230
• Main Authors: Ampatzoglou, Apostolos, Bibi, Stamatia, Avgeriou, Paris, Verbeek, Marijn, Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.02.2019
• Subjects: Empirical software engineering; Literature Review; Secondary studies; Threats to Validity; Empirical software engineering; Literature Review; Threats to Validity; Secondary studies
• ISSN: 0950-5849; 1873-6025
• DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2018.10.006

Secondary studies are vulnerable to threats to validity. Although, mitigating these threats is crucial for the credibility of these studies, we currently lack a systematic approach to identify, categorize and mitigate threats to validity for secondary studies. In this paper, we review the corpus of...