1. ICSE 2011 PANEL
What Industry Wants from Research
Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Corporate Software Engineering Center,
Toshiba Corporation
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2. What I am
Spare Time Tatsuhiro Nishioka
5%
Software
Researcher
20%
Software
Analyst Software
10%
Architect
65%
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3. Quick Question: Do you want to go shopping
By driving this?
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4. Difference between Industry and Research
• Research wants
– Accurate
– Fresh & Advanced
– Generalized
• Research finds
– methods, then problems
that it can solve
• Research hates
– taking long time for
improving usability of its
methods / tools
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5. What Do I Think Works?
• Basically, anything that
– Improves values (= Profit for most of cases)
– Needs no extra labor for applying research
• Something meets below also works
0
Value that Labor for
research applying
improved research
– If you can let Industry understand the heart of your
method or tool
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6. Quick & Rough Numbers for Analysis Tools
It’s like Computer
benchmarking!!
We LOVE this!
Overall
LoC
70
CC
53
Clone
81
Layer
Violation 45
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7. Fully Customized methods / tools
Tailored is better but not good enough
Get this customized for the problem!
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8. What About Pair Practice?
• Industry should • Research should
– Tell researchers their real – Improve usability of
problems methods / tools
– Share their case studies; – Consider how to improve
what works and what value, especially earning
doesn’t
Some good researchers and/or practitioners
must be their bridge. Then we can
– Train good practitioners in – Let researchers practice
Software Engineering
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