Systematic review in software engineering

In 2004 Kitchenham et al. first proposed the idea of evidence-based software engineering (EBSE). EBSE requires a systematic and unbiased method of aggregating empirical studies and has encouraged software engineering researches to undertake systematic literature reviews (SLRs) of Software Engineering topics and research questions. As software engineers began to use the SLR technology, they also began to comment on the SLR process itself. Brereton et al (2007) was one of the first papers that commented on issues connected with performing SLRs and many such papers have followed since covering topics such as: The use of SLRs in education; Experiences of novices using SLRs; The adoption of mapping and scoping studies; The repeatability of SLRs; Improving the search and selection processes; Quality assessment of primary studies; Improving aggregation processes.