Impact of Software Engineering Research in Practice
Zoe Kotti,
Georgios Gousios,
Diomidis Spinellis
Abstract:Existing work on the practical impact of software engineering (SE) research examines industrial relevance rather than adoption of study results, hence the question of how results have been practically applied remains open. To answer this and investigate the outcomes of impactful research, we performed a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 4 335 SE patents citing 1 668 SE papers published between 1975-2017. Moreover, we conducted a survey study on 413 authors of 501 top-cited and awarded publications, achi… Show more
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