Do software engineering practitioners cite software testing research in their online articles?
Ashley H. Williams, Austen Rainer · 2019
Background: Software engineering (SE) research continues to study the degree to which practitioners perceive research as relevant to practice. Such studies typically comprise surveys of practitioner opinions. In a preliminary, and relatively small scale, study of online articles we previously found few explicit citations to software testing research. Our previous study provided an in situ complement to the typical survey study, however the findings of the previous study were limited by the size of our sample.