Abstract :
On 25 October 2012, at ACM\´s SPLASH conference, six practitioners and academics came together for a panel discussion about "Software Tools Research A Matter of Scale and Scope—or Commoditization?" This column is a postconference report on the discussions based a transcript of the session. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/cmEcz3HlKzU is an audio podcast of author Diomidis Spinellis discussing ACM\´s SPLASH (Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity) 2012 conference in which six practitioners and academics came together for a panel discussion about "Software Tools Research A Matter of Scale and Scope—or Commoditization?"
