this course covers the research methods in software engineering and gives ideas on how to plan, conduct and report on empirical research. formulation of empirically-testable hypotheses, the design of experiments in order to test these hypotheses, and a(this course covers the research methods in software engineering and gives ideas on how to plan, conduct and report on empirical research. formulation of empirically-testable hypotheses, the design of experiments in order to test these hypotheses, and a)