Title
What do software engineers care about? gaps between research and practice
Abstract
It is a cliche to say that there is a gap between research and practice. As the interest and importance in the practical impact of research has been growing, the gap between research and practice is expected to be narrowing. However, our study reveals that there still seems to be a wide gap. We survey so ware engineers about what they care about when developing so ware. We then compare our survey results with the research topics of the papers published in ICSE/FSE recently. We found the following discrepancy: while so ware engineers care more about so ware development productivity than the quality of so ware, papers on research areas closely related to so ware productivity--such as so ware development process management and so ware development techniques--are significantly less published than papers on so ware verification and validation that account for more than half of publications. We also found that so ware engineers are in great need for techniques for accurate effort estimation, and they are not necessarily knowledgable about techniques they can use to meet their needs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3106237.3117778
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software Engineering Research and Practice,Survey
Verification and validation,Engineering management,Theoretical computer science,Software,Engineering,Management science
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5105-8
9
0.56
References 
Authors
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vladimir Ivanov13011.48
Alan Rogers2101.94
Giancarlo Succi3175.48
Jooyong Yi426612.04
Vasilii Zorin591.23