Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, Context (PICOC) criteria for research question formulation [16], as suggested in [17, 18]. Using an adaptation of that criteria for software engineering studies by Kitchenham and Charters [17], the study goal was unpacked into its constituent concepts and entities as follows:
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