Gap between Software Engineering Research and Practice
Theresa A. Steinbach and Linda V. Knight in their article "The Relevance of Information Systems Research: Informing the IS Practitioner Community; Informing Ourselves" discuss how software engineering research can become more relevant for practice. Several measures can contribute to this:
- develop closer relationships with practitioners (e.g. by research funding by industry)
- doing more relevant research (by topics and methods of higher relevance)
- changing faculty evaluation
- better dissemination
During my researcher time I often had discussions with others, because for them it seemed natural that each research institute - like each consulting company - needs to develop its own methods and never use those of others.
It is only since I am senior enough that I could choose as research topic rather fundamental questions which I investigate by empirical research, like "Which properties must a good method have?" or "Why is this software activity so difficult to perform?"
After my experiment series about risk estimation, I am currently gathering literature about complexity and will probably come up with the idea for a new experiment series about complexity reduction in software engineering soon. I think that this is rather what practitioners will help in their work, not the requirements engineering method number 215.
- develop closer relationships with practitioners (e.g. by research funding by industry)
- doing more relevant research (by topics and methods of higher relevance)
- changing faculty evaluation
- better dissemination
During my researcher time I often had discussions with others, because for them it seemed natural that each research institute - like each consulting company - needs to develop its own methods and never use those of others.
It is only since I am senior enough that I could choose as research topic rather fundamental questions which I investigate by empirical research, like "Which properties must a good method have?" or "Why is this software activity so difficult to perform?"
After my experiment series about risk estimation, I am currently gathering literature about complexity and will probably come up with the idea for a new experiment series about complexity reduction in software engineering soon. I think that this is rather what practitioners will help in their work, not the requirements engineering method number 215.
AndreaHerrmann - 3. Dez, 16:12
