2^nd international workshop on software engineering research and industrial practice (SER&IP 2015)

Differing perceptions and expectations are obstacles to collaboration between software engineering (SE) researchers and practitioners: Researchers often have a view that practitioners are reluctant to share real data. Practitioners believe that researchers are mostly working on topics which are divorced from real industrial needs. Researchers believe that practitioners are looking for quick fixes. Practitioners have a view that case studies in research do not represent the complexities of real projects. Researchers may expect a few years to do research on a problem whereas practitioners expect a quick solution that pays off immediately.

Researchers and practitioners need to identify the gaps and to discover the ways to collaborate to strengthen SE research and industrial practice (IP). The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the current state of SE research and IP and to enhance collaboration between them. The SER&IP 2015 workshop provided a platform to share success stories of SE research-practice partnerships as well as to discuss the challenges, through a day-long agenda of keynotes, paper presentations and round table discussions.