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Rialette Pretorius
Researcher at Durham University
Publications - 5
Citations - 1187
Rialette Pretorius is an academic researcher from Durham University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Systematic review & Empirical research. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 968 citations.
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Systematic literature reviews in software engineering - A tertiary study
Barbara Kitchenham,Rialette Pretorius,David Budgen,O. Pearl Brereton,Mark Turner,Mahmood Niazi,Stephen Linkman +6 more
TL;DR: SLRs appear to have gone past the stage of being used solely by innovators but cannot yet be considered a main stream software engineering research methodology, such as often failing to assess primary study quality.
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Empirical evidence about the UML: a systematic literature review
TL;DR: To determine how widely the notations of the UML, and their usefulness, have been studied empirically, and to identify which aspects of it have been study in most detail, a mapping study of the literature was undertaken.
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Refining the systematic literature review process--two participant-observer case studies
Barbara Kitchenham,Pearl Brereton,Mark Turner,Mahmood Niazi,Stephen Linkman,Rialette Pretorius,David Budgen +6 more
TL;DR: If quality evaluation of primary studies is a critical component of a specific SLR, assessments should be based on three independent evaluators incorporating at least two rounds of discussion.
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The impact of limited search procedures for systematic literature reviews — A participant-observer case study
Barbara Kitchenham,Pearl Brereton,Mark Turner,Mahmood Niazi,Stephen Linkman,Rialette Pretorius,David Budgen +6 more
TL;DR: Researchers undertaking SLRs may be justified in using targeted manual searches if they intend to omit low quality papers; if publication bias is not an issue; or if they are assessing research trends in research methodologies.
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A mapping study on empirical evidence related to the models and forms used in the uml
Rialette Pretorius,David Budgen +1 more
TL;DR: The largest group of empirical studies of the UML concentrate on comprehension, and many key aspects have hardly been investigated at all.