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The ultimate goal of all software engineering research should be to have an impact on the way software is engineered. This might involve making it more dependable, more economical to produce, more easily understood, or in some way improve the production or quality of software. This should be true whether the research is theoretical in nature or more pragmatic. In the former case the timescale for impact will likely be longer than one would expect if the research involves the proposal of a new specification, development, architecture or testing technique, or a new metric or way of assessing some software artifact. Nonetheless, it should ultimately allow practitioners to build “better” systems.
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Weyuker, E.J. (2007). Empirical Studies as a Basis for Technology Transfer. In: Basili, V.R., Rombach, D., Schneider, K., Kitchenham, B., Pfahl, D., Selby, R.W. (eds) Empirical Software Engineering Issues. Critical Assessment and Future Directions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4336. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71301-2_34
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