Validating the Benefit of New Software Technology
Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Dolores R Wallace · 1998
The software engineering research community has developed methods for showing that new development technologies are effective and the corporate world investigates various techniques before applying them on new developments. Unfortunately, these two communities do not often work together to make technology transfer a smooth process. In this paper, methods for validating research claims in the software development domain are described and methods used by industry to investigate new technologies are given. Guidelines that allow research papers to address the needs for industrial investigations are proposed that should greatly improve the transfer of new technology to industry.