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Successful software engineering research

Abstract

Rumination about what makes research successful is a strong indication that a researcher will not continue to do successful research. Nonetheless, the invitation to publish a short article in SEN on the occasion of being honoured by receiving SIGSOFT's "Outstanding Research Award" has led me to reflect on what I have done. I have been active in research on software design for more than 35 years; perhaps this is the time to pause and look back. I also want to look forward; I have some concerns about the direction being taken by many researchers in the software community and would like to offer them my (possibly unwelcome) advice.

Authors

Parnas DL

Journal

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 64–68

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Publication Date

May 1, 1998

DOI

10.1145/279437.279464

ISSN

0163-5948

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