This repository contains a replication package for the systematic mapping study process applied in our paper "A Systematic Mapping Study on Robotic Testing of Mobile Devices", published in the SEAA 2022 conference.
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Review Protocol: the systematic mapping study guide, defining the steps from the application of the search string to the final data extraction from the selected articles.
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all-steps: the spreadsheet that reports on the execution of the process defined in the protocol, summarizing the following main steps:
- Search result
- Duplicates removal
- Include/exclude decision based on the title and the abstract
- Include/exclude decision based on the introduction and the conclusion
- Backward snowballing
- Forward snowballing from the selected papers
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data-extraction: the spreadsheet applied to extract data from the selected studies with the main purpose of providing information related to the research questions, answering the following topics:
- DOI
- Title
- Publication year
- Author(s)
- Organization and country
- What are the reasons for using robots?
- What types of tests are automated with robots?
- What device/software is tested with robots?
- Robots' details (e.g. brand, model)
- How robots are used to promote test automation?
- What frameworks are used to promote automation?
- Were the results compared with other testing strategies?
- If so, were the results successful?
- What are the identified limitations?
- What is planned as future work?
- List any referenced work that is also worth reading.
- Other relevant information.
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synthesis: the main spreadsheet that contains the synthesis of all relevant information.