Empirical Software Engineering has received much attention in recent years and became a de-facto standard for scientific practice in Software Engineering. However, while extensive guidelines are nowadays available for designing, conducting, reporting, and reviewing empirical studies, similar attention has not yet been paid to teaching empirical software engineering. Closing this gap is the scope of this edited book. In the following editorial introduction, we, the editors, set the foundation by laying out the larger context of the discipline for a positioning of the remainder of this book.

翻译：近年来，实证软件工程备受关注，已成为软件工程科学实践的事实标准。然而，尽管目前已有大量关于设计、实施、报告和评审实证研究的指导方针，但针对实证软件工程教学的相关关注仍显不足。本编辑著作旨在填补这一空白。在接下来的编者引言中，我们作为编者将通过阐述该学科的宏观背景来奠定基础，从而为本书后续内容的定位提供框架。