secondary studies

Search for secondary studies is essential to establish whether the review on the intended topic has already been done, avoiding waste time. The main goal of this work is to analyze search strings to establish directions to better detect secondary studies in Software Engineering (SE).

We conducted a tertiary systematic literature review to identify, classify, and evaluate the current state of the art on software visualization from 48 software visualization secondary studies, following three perspectives{:} publication trends, software visualization topics and techniques, and issues related to research field.