@inproceedings{FelizardoMKSV16,
  author    = {Katia Romero Felizardo and
               Emilia Mendes and
               Marcos Kalinowski and
               {\'{E}}rica Ferreira de Souza and
               Nandamudi L. Vijaykumar},
  title     = {Using Forward Snowballing to update Systematic Reviews in Software
               Engineering},
  abstract  = {Background: A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is a methodology used to aggregate relevant evidence related to one or more research questions. Whenever new evidence is published after the completion of a SLR, this SLR should be updated in order to preserve its value. However, updating SLRs involves significant effort. Objective: The goal of this paper is to investigate the application of forward snowballing to support the update of SLRs. Method: We compare outcomes of an update achieved using the forward snowballing versus a published update using the search-based approach, i.e., searching for studies in electronic databases using a search string. Results: Forward snowballing showed a higher precision and a slightly lower recall. It reduced in more than five times the number of primary studies to filter however missed one relevant study. Conclusions: Due to its high precision, we believe that the use of forward snowballing considerably reduces the effort in updating SLRs in Software Engineering; however the risk of missing relevant papers should not be underrated. © 2016 ACM.},			   
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th {ACM/IEEE} International Symposium on Empirical
               Software Engineering and Measurement, {ESEM} 2016, Ciudad Real, Spain,
               September 8-9, 2016},
  pages     = {53:1-53:6},
  note      = {<font color="red">Best Short Paper Award!</font>},  
  year      = {2016},
  urlAuthor_version       = {http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~kalinowski/publications/FelizardoMKSV16.pdf},
  doi       = {10.1145/2961111.2962630},
}

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