Limitations and context of research
B. Murphy Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Abstract
The software industry has existed for over 60 years and is now a massive multinational, multi-billion dollar industry. During this time, the number of people working in the software industry has expanded significantly, as has the number of software engineering researchers. In theory, these software engineering researchers should be driving the future of software development, but even the most optimistic software engineering researcher would not make this claim. In reality the number of practitioners attending Software Engineering conferences is decreasing. This chapter examines research limitations that may explain its apparent disconnect ...
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