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Citation:  Jo E. Hannay, Dag I.K. Sjøberg, Tore Dybå, "A Systematic Review of Theory Use in Software Engineering Experiments," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 33,  no. 2,  pp. 87-107,  Feb.,  2007