Towards a Maturity Model for Systematic Literature Review Process

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Santos, Vinicius dos, Kazman, Rick, Capilla, Rafael, Nakagawa, Elisa Yumi
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2022
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866929656004870144
author Santos, Vinicius dos
Kazman, Rick
Capilla, Rafael
Nakagawa, Elisa Yumi
author_facet Santos, Vinicius dos
Kazman, Rick
Capilla, Rafael
Nakagawa, Elisa Yumi
contents Systematic literature reviews (SLR) have been increasingly conducted in software engineering and they provide significant benefits in terms of summarizing the state of the research. The process of conducting SLR is complex, involving several activities and consuming considerable effort and time from researchers. Researchers often skip or poorly conduct essential activities, which introduce threats to validity, resulting in lower-quality SLR. But researchers are often unaware of what they could do to mature their SLR process, thus improving the SLR quality. The main goal of this paper is to introduce a maturity model for the SLR process named MM4SLR. To this end, we were inspired by well-known models like CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration). We first identified 39 key practices for SLR from the literature and grouped them into nine goals that were further grouped into five process areas. We then organized the process areas into five maturity levels which compose our model. Our proof of concept, applying the MM4SLR to four published SLR showed that the MM4SLR is suitable for appraising SLR and can identify important flaws in SLR quality. MM4SLR can therefore support researchers in creating their SLR processes and selecting practices that could be adopted to mature their processes.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2206_11936
institution arXiv
publishDate 2022
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Towards a Maturity Model for Systematic Literature Review Process
Santos, Vinicius dos
Kazman, Rick
Capilla, Rafael
Nakagawa, Elisa Yumi
Software Engineering
Systematic literature reviews (SLR) have been increasingly conducted in software engineering and they provide significant benefits in terms of summarizing the state of the research. The process of conducting SLR is complex, involving several activities and consuming considerable effort and time from researchers. Researchers often skip or poorly conduct essential activities, which introduce threats to validity, resulting in lower-quality SLR. But researchers are often unaware of what they could do to mature their SLR process, thus improving the SLR quality. The main goal of this paper is to introduce a maturity model for the SLR process named MM4SLR. To this end, we were inspired by well-known models like CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration). We first identified 39 key practices for SLR from the literature and grouped them into nine goals that were further grouped into five process areas. We then organized the process areas into five maturity levels which compose our model. Our proof of concept, applying the MM4SLR to four published SLR showed that the MM4SLR is suitable for appraising SLR and can identify important flaws in SLR quality. MM4SLR can therefore support researchers in creating their SLR processes and selecting practices that could be adopted to mature their processes.
title Towards a Maturity Model for Systematic Literature Review Process
topic Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11936