Enabling innovation: a choice for software engineering

  • Authors:
  • Richard N. Taylor

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Software Engineering must choose whether it wants its future to be one in which innovative development techniques, innovative architectures, innovative interfaces, and such are enabled and encouraged to emerge from its research community, or if research will be confined to observation, analysis, formalization, experimentation, and assessment of the innovations that emerge from other quarters, notably industrial practice. If the choice is to enable innovation in the research community, then the "meta-practices" of the community must change. To wit, the criteria actually applied to funding requests must be changed and forums in which innovations can be presented must be created.