The Case for Context-Driven Software Engineering Research: Generalizability Is Overrated
Lionel Briand, Domenico Bianculli, Shiva Nejati, Fabrizio Pastore, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh · IEEE Software · 2017
For software engineering research to increase its impact and steer our community toward a more successful future, it must foster context-driven research. Such research focuses on problems defined in collaboration with industrial partners and is driven by concrete needs in specific domains and development projects.