Title: The Role of Empirical Studies in Software Engineering
Speaker: Dietmar Pfahl, University of Oslo

Abstract.
This presentation gives a brief introduction into empirical research and discusses its importance for software engineering. Recently published studies are used to illustrate how empirical research helps analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of software engineering tools and techniques, and how empirical studies contribute to the design of new techniques and tools and the development of supporting theories.

The venia legendi was supported by ERF programme "Estonian higher education information and communications technology and research and development activities state program 2011-2015 (ICT program)"