Using Students as Subjects—A Comparative Study of Students and Professionals in Lead-Time Impact Assessment Export

@article{Host00, abstract = {In many studiesin software engineering students are used instead of professionalsoftware developers, although the objective is to draw conclusionsvalid for professional software developers. This paper presentsa study where the difference between the two groups is evaluated.People from the two groups have individually carried out a non-trivialsoftware engineering judgement task involving the assessmentof how ten different factors affect the lead-time of softwaredevelopment projects. It is found that the differences are only minor, and it is concluded that software engineering studentsmay be used instead of professional software developers undercertain conditions. These conditions are identified and describedbased on generally accepted criteria for validity evaluationof empirical studies.}, author = {Host, Martin and Regnell, Bjorn and Wohlin, Claes}, citeulike-article-id = {835477}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026586415054}, doi = {10.1023/A:1026586415054}, journal = {Empirical Software Engineering}, keywords = {empirical, experience}, month = {November}, number = {3}, posted-at = {2006-09-08 14:50:31}, priority = {4}, title = {Using Students as Subjects—A Comparative Study of Students and Professionals in Lead-Time Impact Assessment}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026586415054}, volume = {5}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - Host00 L3 - citeulike-article-id:835477 N2 - In many studiesin software engineering students are used instead of professionalsoftware developers, although the objective is to draw conclusionsvalid for professional software developers. This paper presentsa study where the difference between the two groups is evaluated.People from the two groups have individually carried out a non-trivialsoftware engineering judgement task involving the assessmentof how ten different factors affect the lead-time of softwaredevelopment projects. It is found that the differences are only minor, and it is concluded that software engineering studentsmay be used instead of professional software developers undercertain conditions. These conditions are identified and describedbased on generally accepted criteria for validity evaluationof empirical studies. IS - 3 JF - Empirical Software Engineering TI - Using Students as Subjects—A Comparative Study of Students and Professionals in Lead-Time Impact Assessment VL - 5 KW - empirical KW - experience AU - Host, Martin AU - Regnell, Bjorn AU - Wohlin, Claes PY - 2000/11// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026586415054 ER -