The Empirical Paradigm Discussion and Summary

Abstract

The session was structured into fours parts:

• 1 Two presentations, which addressed the use of empirical validation in software engineering.

• 1 Two presentations about exploratory versus confirmatory experiments.

• 1 A working session, which addressed questions that arose from the presentations and which involved splitting into three working groups to address different issues followed by a plenary feedback session.

• 1 A wrap-up by Mike Mahoney from a historian’s perspective.