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Report on the first SEMAT workshop on general theory of software engineering (GTSE 2012)

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Pontus Johnson,

Howell JordanAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 38, Issue 2

Pages 26 - 28

https://doi.org/10.1145/2439976.2439999

Published: 23 March 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Many academic disciplines have general theories, which apply across the discipline and underlie much of its research. Examples include the Big Bang theory (cosmology), Maxwell's equations (electrodynamics), the theories of the cell and evolution (biology), the theory of supply and demand (economics), and the general theory of crime (criminology). Software engineering, in contrast, has no widely-accepted general theory. Consequently, the SEMAT Initiative organized a workshop to encourage development of general theory in software engineering. Workshop participants reached broad consensus that software engineering would benefit from better theoretical foundations, which require diverse theoretical approaches, consensus on a primary dependent variable and better instrumentation and descriptive research.

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 38, Issue 2

March 2013

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