RESOURCES

• Grant, M. J. and Booth, A. (2009), A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 26: 91–108.

• Budgen, D., & Brereton, P. (2006). Performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering (pp. 1051-1052).

• Cartaxo, B., Pinto, G., & Soares, S. (2018, June). The role of rapid reviews in supporting decision-making in software engineering practice. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering 2018 (pp. 24-34).

• PRISMA: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. http://www.prisma-statement.org/

ASSIGNMENTS

You will practice reading a literature review in Assignment 10. We will cover literature reviews again in CSE 492 R, this time with an eye towards doing your own literature review.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After completing this module students should be able to:

• I7.1 - Enumerate different types of literature reviews.

• I7.2 - Roughly describe the methodology for doing literature reviews.

• I7.3 - Read a literature review on a research topic of interest and extract useful information from it.