ICSE 2011: Research industry panel

Panel: What Industry Wants from Research Organizers: Jorge Aranda, Daniela Damian, Marian Petre, Margaret-‐Anne Storey, Greg Wilson

A conversa>on is started…

Ques>ons we asked… What is your percep%on of soFware engineering research? Conferences, journals, collabora>ons… What counts as evidence? How do you ﬁnd out about results? What topics should soFware engineering research focus on?

Percep%ons of so0ware research Focused on organiza%ons that don’t compare to us Results may fail to scale Piecemeal improvements Irrelevant, dated, ignoring cuRng edge problems hSp://>nyurl.com/icse2011panel

What counts as evidence? Preference for quan>ta>ve data and sta>s>cal signiﬁcance Associa>on of qualita>ve data with mere anecdote‘ But -‐ inﬂuen>al opinions persuasive hSp://>nyurl.com/icse2011panel

Diﬃculty in applying our ﬁndings Resistance to change for small poten>al gains hSp://>nyurl.com/icse2011panel

Dissemina%on of results Results are not geRng out there! Sugges5ons: Researchers should be aSending prac>>oner conferences Need to dis>ll research results for prac>>oners hSp://>nyurl.com/icse2011panel

Research topics of interest Developer issues Tool issues Code issues User Issues Evalua>on Issues Management issues hSp://>nyurl.com/icse2011panel

Reac%ons to our blog? hSp://>nyurl.com/icse2011panel

Broadening this conversa>on

Panel par>cipants David Weiss, Iowa State University John Penix, Google Lionel Briand, Simula Research Laboratory Peri Tarr, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Tatsuhiro Nishioka, Corporate SoFware Engineering Center, Toshiba Corpora>on Wolfram Schulte, MicrosoF Research

Ques>ons we posed to the panelists… What percep%on does industry have of academic research? What kind of evidence is compelling? Which research ques%ons should be addressed? Most useful empirical ﬁnding? Success story? How to improve dissemina%on of research results? How to engage industry in research?

Panel format 5 min presenta>ons from the panelists Your turn! <1 minute closing statement from each panelist

Panel par>cipants David Weiss, Iowa State University John Penix, Google Lionel Briand, Simula Research Laboratory Peri Tarr, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Tatsuhiro Nishioka, Corporate SoFware Engineering Center, Toshiba Corpora>on Wolfram Schulte, MicrosoF Research

ICSE 2011: Research industry panel

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