2018 Proceeding- Conference Chairs:
- Silverio Martínez-Fernández,
- Matthias Galster,
- Fabio Queda Bueno da Silva,
- Marcus Ciolkowski
Welcome to the 6th International Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry (CESI), held at the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) on May 28, 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Challenges in conducting empirical research in and with industry arise from the complexity of software systems, products and services, development processes, organizational settings, business contexts, etc. and from the sometimes contradicting goals of researchers (search for truth) and practitioners (search for solutions). Yet, empirical studies in industry are necessary to ensure the relevance and applicability of software engineering research in the real world. Consequently, the goal of CESI is to look beyond research methodologies, but to explore how empirical research results can be obtained and put into action in industrial settings. Building on the results of the five previous editions of the CESI at ICSE and utilizing the momentum created in the community, CESI 2018 investigates if and how results obtained in specific industry contexts can help advance the industry in general. Also, CESI will investigate the impact of empirical studies conducted in industry, including successes and failures. We believe that this will further stimulate empirical research in software engineering and increase industry's appreciation of empirical research.
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Comparing reliability levels of software releases
An intuitive method is needed to achieve buy-in from all sectors of Engineering for a way to gauge release-over-release change for a given product's sequence of releases. Also, customers need to know if there are extant releases that are more reliable ...
Experiences in using practitioner's checklists to evaluate the industrial relevance of requirements engineering experiments
Background: A grand challenge for Requirement Engineering (RE) research is to help practitioners understand which RE methods work in what contexts and why. RE researchers recognize that for an RE method to be adopted in industry, RE practitioners should ...
Experience of industry case studies: a comparison of multi-case and embedded case study methods
Context: Case studies are a useful approach for conducting empirical studies of software engineering, in part because they allow a phenomenon to be studied in its real-world context. However, given that there are several kinds of case studies, each with ...
Towards an experiment line on software inspection with human computation
Software Inspection is an important approach to find defects in Software Engineering (SE) artifacts. While there has been extensive research on traditional software inspection with pen-and-paper materials, modern SE poses new environments, methods, and ...
A preliminary checklist for capturing baseline situations in studying the impacts of agile practices introduction
To assess the benefits of introducing Agile practices, it is important to get a clear understanding of the baseline situation, i.e. the situation before their introduction. Without a clear baseline, we cannot properly assess the extent of impacts, both ...
Protocol and tools for conducting agile software engineering research in an industrial-academic setting: a preliminary study
Conducting empirical research in software engineering industry is a process, and as such, it should be generalizable. The aim of this paper is to discuss how academic researchers may address some of the challenges they encounter during conducting ...
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