Empirical Software Engineering: A Roadmap Report from a Workshop held at STEP 2002, Montréal, October 2002

  • Authors:

  • David Budgen;Gene Hoffnagle;Matthias Müller;François Robert;Asma Sellami;Scott Tilley

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • STEP '02 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The growing awareness of the need to employ evidence-basedarguments to support the practices of softwareengineering, rather than arguments based upon advocacy,has led to a growing interest in the related area ofempirical practices. This workshop, held at STEP 2002,set out to address two questions.\bullet What techniques do we need for Empirical SoftwareEngineering?\bullet What are the grand challenges' that EmpiricalSoftware Engineering should be addressing as amatter of priority?For practical reasons, these were addressed in reverseorder, and we began by identifying what each participantsaw as being the challenges facing the wider acceptanceand use of empirical techniques in software engineering.We then classified and grouped the challenges soidentified under the three headings of resource, technical,and strategic. The next step involved examining how theparticular challenges could be addressed, what proposalsfor action we would put forward, and how these proposalsmight be followed up. A core element we identified wasthe need to provide some form of centralised resource(such as a web site), that could support both research andteaching. In this paper we outline the role that such a sitecould have, and also identify some of the elements that arelikely to be needed in any educational module thataddresses this topic.