How practitioners perceive the relevance of software engineering research

@article{Lo2015HowPP,
  title={How practitioners perceive the relevance of software engineering research},
  author={D. Lo and Nachiappan Nagappan and Thomas Zimmermann},
  journal={Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering},
  year={2015}
}
  • D. Lo, N. Nagappan, T. Zimmermann
  • Published 30 August 2015
  • Business
  • Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
The number of software engineering research papers over the last few years has grown significantly. An important question here is: how relevant is software engineering research to practitioners in the field? To address this question, we conducted a survey at Microsoft where we invited 3,000 industry practitioners to rate the relevance of research ideas contained in 571 ICSE, ESEC/FSE and FSE papers that were published over a five year period. We received 17,913 ratings by 512 practitioners who… 
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