CrowdSLR: a tool to support the use of crowdsourcing in systematic literature reviews

Vinicius Santos, Anderson Iwazaki, Érica Souza, Katia Felizardo, Nandamudi Vijaykumar

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Abstract

Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) have been used by Software Engineering (SE) community to produce reliable scientific evidence. An SLR process can be exhaustive and time-consuming, therefore, many approaches have been proposed to reduce time and efforts during the SLR conduction process. Although the SLR process is amenable to automation, nowadays full automation is not yet possible. An alternative to reduce time and efforts in SLR conduction is the use of crowdsourcing. However, there is no crowdsourcing tool to support a crowd-based SLR process. In this context, we present CrowdSLR, a tool to support the application of crowdsourcing in SLR during the selection of primary studies. Furthermore, we present its main features, potential users, and the architecture that was implemented to allow researchers to adopt this tool. The results of the CrowdSLR application indicate that the tool is able to provide the use crowdsourcing during the SLR selection process. The results that the proposed tool, indeed, show a significant improvement in the crowdsourcing approach in terms of time and effort to facilitate the SLR selection activity. Demo Video: https://youtu.be/UoQTC-R-Mv0
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSBES 2021
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the XXXV [35th] Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages341-346
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450390613
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event35th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, SBES 2021, held in conjunction with the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice, CBSoft 2021 - Virtual, Online, Brazil
Duration: 29 Sept 20211 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference35th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, SBES 2021, held in conjunction with the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice, CBSoft 2021
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityVirtual, Online
Period29/09/211/10/21

Funding

This work was supported by the Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement - CAPES (PROEX-11357580/D), São Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP (Grant 2015/24144-7, 2019/23663-1) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq (Grant 312634/2018-8).

FundersFunder number
Coordination of Superior
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo2019/23663-1, 2015/24144-7
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorPROEX-11357580/D
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico312634/2018-8

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