Background: The software engineering community has increasingly conducted systematic literature reviews (SLR) as a means to summarize evidence from different studies and bring to light the state of the art of a given research topic. While SLR provide many benefits, they also present several problems with punctual solutions for some of them. However, two main problems still remain: the high time-/effort-consumption nature of SLR and the lack of an effective impact of SLR results in the industry, as initially expected for SLR. Aims: The main goal of this paper is to introduce a new view - which we name Sustainability of SLR - on how to deal with SLR aiming at reducing those problems. Method: We analyzed six reference studies published in the last decade to identify, group, and analyze the SLR problems and their interconnections. Based on such analysis, we proposed the view of Sustainability of SLR that intends to address these problems. Results: The proposed view encompasses three dimensions (social, economic, and technical) that could become SLR more sustainable in the sense that the four major problems and 31 barriers (i.e., possible causes for those problems) that we identified could be mitigated. Conclusions: The view of Sustainability of SLR intends to change the researchers' mindset to mitigate the inherent SLR problems and, as a consequence, achieve sustainable SLR, i.e., those that consume less time/effort to be conducted and updated with useful results for the industry.
翻译:软件工程界越来越多地进行系统的文献审查(SLR),以总结不同研究的证据,并揭示某一研究课题的先进程度。虽然SLR提供了许多好处,但也提出了一些问题,其中一些问题得到了及时的解决办法。然而,仍然存在两个主要问题:软件工程界的高时间/努力消耗性质,以及SLR结果在行业中缺乏有效影响,这是最初对SLR的预期。 目标:本文件的主要目标是提出一种新的观点——我们称之为SLR的可持续性——如何处理旨在减少这些问题的SLR。方法:我们分析了过去十年出版的六份参考研究,以查明、分组和分析SLR问题及其相互联系。根据这种分析,我们提出了SLR的可持续性观点,目的是解决这些问题。结果:拟议的观点包括三个方面(社会、经济和技术),从四个主要问题和31个壁垒(即SLR的可持续性——这些障碍的可能原因)的意义上来说,我们所查明的SLRR结果和S-LR的稳定性可以降低。我们所查明的S-LR的稳定性和S-LR的内涵性后果,这些结论:S-LR-LR-S-salalal-s-s-s-s-s-sal-s-s-s-s-s-s-s