Emerging Results on Automated Support for Searching and Selecting Evidence for Systematic Literature Review Updates

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05317v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 23:39:20 GMT
• Title: Emerging Results on Automated Support for Searching and Selecting Evidence for Systematic Literature Review Updates
• Authors: Bianca Minetto Napole\~ao, Ritika Sarkar, Sylvain Hall\'e, Fabio Petrillo, Marcos Kalinowski
• Abstract summary: We present emerging results on an automated approach to support searching and selecting studies for SLR updates in Software Engineering. We developed an automated tool prototype to perform the snowballing search technique and support selecting relevant studies for SLR updates using Machine Learning (ML) algorithms.
• Score: 1.1153433121962064
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Context: The constant growth of primary evidence and Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) publications in the Software Engineering (SE) field leads to the need for SLR Updates. However, searching and selecting evidence for SLR updates demands significant effort from SE researchers. Objective: We present emerging results on an automated approach to support searching and selecting studies for SLR updates in SE. Method: We developed an automated tool prototype to perform the snowballing search technique and support selecting relevant studies for SLR updates using Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. We evaluated our automation proposition through a small-scale evaluation with a reliable dataset from an SLR replication and its update. Results: Effectively automating snowballing-based search strategies showed feasibility with minor losses, specifically related to papers without Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The ML algorithm giving the highest performance to select studies for SLR updates was Linear Support Vector Machine, with approximately 74% recall and 15% precision. Using such algorithms with conservative thresholds to minimize the risk of missing papers can significantly reduce evidence selection efforts. Conclusion: The preliminary results of our evaluation point in promising directions, indicating the potential of automating snowballing search efforts and of reducing the number of papers to be manually analyzed by about 2.5 times when selecting evidence for updating SLRs in SE.

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