Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

Abstract

Welcome to the Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2015) that held in Nanjing, China on April 27th and 29th, 2015. For almost two decades, the EASE conference has become the premier event of the empirical software engineering and evidence-based software engineering. EASE offers an international forum where researchers and practitioners interested in empirical software engineering can present their latest work, and where issues related to all forms of empirical research and evaluation in software practice can be discussed. In 2015, it was the first time that EASE was organised in the Asia, an indication that the conference was broadening its influence in the worldwide community. In the past decade, Systematic Literature Reviews have become an important research method in software engineering since the introduction of Evidence Based Software Engineering (EBSE) at ICSE 2004. Apart from the traditional technical program consisting of keynote speeches, main research track (full papers and short papers), and panel discussion, EASE 2015 incorporated a special track that was dedicated to Systematic Secondary Studies, in the forms of Systematic Reviews, Mapping Studies, Tertiary Studies, Meta-Analyses, and the related methodological improvements.