The Case for Context-Driven Software Engineering Research: Generalizability Is Overrated

Lionel Briand; Domenico Bianculli; Shiva Nejati; Fabrizio Pastore; Mehrdad Sabetzadeh

doi:10.1109/MS.2017.3571562

The Case for Context-Driven Software Engineering Research: Generalizability Is Overrated

Lionel Briand
, Domenico Bianculli
, Shiva Nejati
, Fabrizio Pastore
, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh

University of Luxembourg

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Abstract

For software engineering research to increase its impact and steer our community toward a more successful future, it must foster context-driven research. Such research focuses on problems defined in collaboration with industrial partners and is driven by concrete needs in specific domains and development projects.

Original language	English
Article number	8048656
Pages (from-to)	72-75
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	34
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2017.3571562
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

context-driven research
context-driven software engineering
software development
software engineering

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