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

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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

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EASE '16 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	1 Jun 2016
Article number	22
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3691-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2915970.2916011
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2016
Event	International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering - University of Limerick and Lero, Limerick, Ireland Duration: 1 Jun 2016 → 3 Jun 2016 Conference number: 20 http://ease2016.lero.ie/

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Conference	International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Number	20
Location	University of Limerick and Lero
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Limerick
Period	01/06/2016 → 03/06/2016
Internet address	http://ease2016.lero.ie/

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design exploration
literature study
prototyping
tool

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Project: Research

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Tell, P, Cholewa, JB, Nellemann, P & Kuhrmann, M 2016, Beyond the Spreadsheet: Reflections on Tool Support for Literature Studies. in 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, Ireland, 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.

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