DocumentCode
838646
Title
Must Software Research Stand Divided?
Author
Erdogmus, Hakan
Author_Institution
National Research Council Canada
Volume
25
Issue
5
fYear
2008
Firstpage
4
Lastpage
6
Abstract
A not-so-subtle divide separates empirical and constructionist software research. Constructionists maintain that software research should be about creating technologies, devising new methods. Empiricists are interested in studying and understanding existing approaches. The antagonism between the two camps does not serve our industry well—it needs both modes of research.
Keywords
Buildings; Fires; Humans; Laboratories; Physics; Predictive models; Programming; Software engineering; Symbiosis; Technological innovation; constructionist software engineering; empirical research; empirical software engineering;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MS.2008.120
Filename
4602664
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