Empirical studies have become the backbone of software engineering research. Software engineering research and partially practice have adopted empirical methods, which are essential to assess, predict, monitor and improve software technologies, products, and the way in which they are produced. Nowadays, important software engineering conferences and journals only accept technical papers whether they come with a robust empirical evaluation. There are already several books on basic empirical methods in software engineering available. However, an up-to-date overview of advanced empirical methods and their application in software engineering is missing. This book fills that gap and provides contemporary advanced empirical methods for software engineering. weiterlesen