Memorias de investigación
Communications at congresses:
Topic Selection in Industry Experiments
Year:2014
Research Areas
  • Information technology and adata processing
Information
Abstract
This paper shares our experience with initial negotiation and topic elicitation process for conducting industry experiments in six software development organizations in Finland. The process involved interaction with company representatives in the form of both multiple group discussions and separate face-to-face meetings. Fitness criteria developed by researchers were applied to the list of generated topics to decide on a common topic. The challenges we faced include diversity of proposed topics, communication gaps, skepticism about research methods, initial disconnect between research and industry needs, and lack of prior work relationship. Lessons learned include having enough time to establish trust with partners, importance of leveraging the benefits of training and skill development that are inherent in the experimental approach, uniquely positioning the experimental approach within the landscape of other validation approaches more familiar to industrial partners, and introducing the fitness criteria early in the process.
International
Si
Congress
CESI 2014: International Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry
960
Place
Hyderabad, India
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
978-1-4503-2843-2
10.1145/2593690.2593691
Start Date
02/06/2014
End Date
02/06/2014
From page
25
To page
30
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry (CESI 2014)
Participants
Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Ingeniería del Software
  • Departamento: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería de Software