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Benefitting from the Grey Literature in Software Engineering Research
Queen’s University Belfast, GBR.
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computing, Department of Software Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3818-4442
University of Oulu, FIN.
Queen’s University Belfast, GBR.
2020 (English)In: Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering / [ed] Michael Felderer, Guilherme Horta Travassos, Springer Nature, 2020, p. 385-413Chapter in book (Refereed)
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Researchers generally place the most trust in peer-reviewed, published information, such as journals and conference papers. By contrast, software engineering (SE) practitioners typically do not have the time, access, or expertise to review and benefit from such publications. As a result, practitioners are more likely to turn to other sources of information that they trust, e.g., trade magazines, online blog posts, survey results, or technical reports, collectively referred to as grey literature (GL). Furthermore, practitioners also share their ideas and experiences as GL, which can serve as a valuable data source for research. While GL itself is not a new topic in SE, using, benefitting, and synthesizing knowledge from the GL in SE is a contemporary topic in empirical SE research and we are seeing that researchers are increasingly benefitting from the knowledge available within GL. The goal of this chapter is to provide an overview of GL in SE, together with insights on how SE researchers can effectively use and benefit from the knowledge and evidence available in the vast amount of GL.

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Springer Nature, 2020. p. 385-413
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URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-23205DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32489-6_14ISBN: 9783030324889 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-23205DiVA, id: diva2:1671690
Available from: 2022-06-17 Created: 2022-06-17 Last updated: 2022-06-17Bibliographically approved

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