2.1 Introduction Most medical guidelines have little to say about experimental context. However, we regard experimental context as extremely important for software engineering research. Experimental context has three elements: 1. Background information about the industrial circumstances in which an empirical study takes place or in which a new software engineering technique is developed. 2. Discussion of the research hypotheses and how they were derived. 3. Information about related research.
The main goals of context guidelines are: 1. To ensure that the objectives of the research are properly defined 2. To ensure that the description of the research provides enough detail for other researchers and for practitioners