论文标题
建立系统文献审查过程的成熟模型
Towards a Maturity Model for Systematic Literature Review Process
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论文摘要
系统文献综述（SLR）在软件工程中越来越多地进行，它们在总结研究状态方面提供了重大好处。进行SLR的过程很复杂，涉及几项活动，并消耗研究人员的大量精力和时间。研究人员经常跳过或进行不良的活动，这引起了对有效性的威胁，从而导致SLR质量较低。但是，研究人员通常不知道他们可以做些什么来使他们的SLR过程成熟，从而提高了SLR质量。本文的主要目的是为名为MM4SLR的SLR过程引入成熟模型。为此，我们的灵感来自CMMI（能力成熟度模型集成）等知名模型。我们首先从文献中确定了SLR的39个关键实践，并将它们分为9个目标，这些目标进一步分为五个过程领域。然后，我们将过程区域组织成五个成熟度水平，这些水平构成了我们的模型。我们的概念证明将MM4SLR应用于四个已发表的SLR，表明MM4SLR适合评估SLR，并且可以识别SLR质量的重要缺陷。因此，MM4SLR可以支持研究人员创建其SLR流程并选择可以采用以使其流程成熟的实践。
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.
