Report on the first SEMAT workshop on general theory of software engineering (GTSE 2012)

Authors:
Paul Ralph;Pontus Johnson;Howell Jordan
Affiliations:
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;Lero - University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Venue:
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Many academic disciplines have general theories, which apply across the discipline and underlie much of its research. Examples include the Big Bang theory (cosmology), Maxwell's equations (electrodynamics), the theories of the cell and evolution (biology), the theory of supply and demand (economics), and the general theory of crime (criminology). Software engineering, in contrast, has no widely-accepted general theory. Consequently, the SEMAT Initiative organized a workshop to encourage development of general theory in software engineering. Workshop participants reached broad consensus that software engineering would benefit from better theoretical foundations, which require diverse theoretical approaches, consensus on a primary dependent variable and better instrumentation and descriptive research.