Experience and methods from integrating evidence-based software engineering into education

The goal of the workshop series on empirical software engineering is to have discussions on issues related to current software engineering research and prac-tice. Nowadays, SE technologies are employed that frequently lack sufficient evidence regarding their suitability, their limits, qualities, costs, and inherent risks. This supports the provision that evidence is becoming more and more im-portant for practitioners and academics to support arguments and decisions in research as well as software engineering practice. The advent of the evidence-based software engineering paradigm emphasizes the importance of aggregating empirical results. This goal of this workshop, "EXPERIENCE AND METHODS FROM INTEGRATING EVIDENCE-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTO EDUCATION", is to discuss issues related to fostering the evidence-based paradigm. It therefore focuses on experiences with and approaches for teaching evidence-based Software Engi-neering. A major discussion relates to how to "grow the seeds"; that is, how we can teach evidence-based SE in a way that encourages students to practice that paradigm in their professional life. The workshop itself is the fourth one in the workshop series on empirical Soft-ware Engineering. The first one was held in conjunction with PROFES 2002 in Rovaniemi, the second one was held in conjunction with the Empirical Software Engineering International Week 2003 in Rome, the third was held in conjunc-tion with PROFES 2005 in Oulu.