Beyond the Spreadsheet: Reflections on Tool Support for Literature Studies

Paolo Tell; Jacob Benjamin Cholewa; Peter Nellemann; Marco Kuhrmann

doi:10.1145/2915970.2916011

Beyond the Spreadsheet: Reflections on Tool Support for Literature Studies

Paolo Tell, Jacob Benjamin Cholewa, Peter Nellemann, Marco Kuhrmann

Publikation: Konference artikel i Proceeding eller bog/rapport kapitel › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review

Abstract

Background: Even though a number of tools are reported to be used by researchers undertaking systematic reviews, important shortages are still reported revealing how such solutions are unable to satisfy current needs.
Method: Two research groups independently provided a design for a tool supporting systematic reviews. The resulting tools were assessed against the feature lists provided by prior research.
Results: After presenting an overview of the tools and the core design decisions taken, we provide a feature analysis and a discussion regarding selected challenges deemed crucial to provide a proper tool support.
Conclusions: Although the designed solutions do not yet support the entire systematic review process, their architecture has been designed to be flexible and extendable. After highlighting the difficulties of developing appropriate tools, we call for action: developing tools to support systematic reviews is a community project

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	EASE '16 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Forlag	Association for Computing Machinery
Publikationsdato	1 jun. 2016
Artikelnummer	22
ISBN (Trykt)	978-1-4503-3691-8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1145/2915970.2916011
Status	Udgivet - 1 jun. 2016
Begivenhed	International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering - University of Limerick and Lero, Limerick, Irland Varighed: 1 jun. 2016 → 3 jun. 2016 Konferencens nummer: 20 http://ease2016.lero.ie/

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Konference	International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Nummer	20
Lokation	University of Limerick and Lero
Land/Område	Irland
By	Limerick
Periode	01/06/2016 → 03/06/2016
Internetadresse	http://ease2016.lero.ie/

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Tell, P, Cholewa, JB, Nellemann, P & Kuhrmann, M 2016, Beyond the Spreadsheet: Reflections on Tool Support for Literature Studies. i EASE '16 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering., 22, Association for Computing Machinery, International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, Limerick, Irland, 01/06/2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2915970.2916011

Beyond the Spreadsheet: Reflections on Tool Support for Literature Studies. / Tell, Paolo; Cholewa, Jacob Benjamin; Nellemann, Peter et al.
EASE '16 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. 22.

Publikation: Konference artikel i Proceeding eller bog/rapport kapitel › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review

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