How practitioners perceive the relevance of software engineering research

2015 10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2015 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 415-425

  Lo, David ^a   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^b   Zimmermann, Thomas ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Industry; Software engineering research; Survey

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INDUSTRY; SURVEYING; SURVEYS;

FREE TEXTS; MICROSOFT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELEVANCE SCORE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84960466779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2786805.2786809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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