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ESEM 2021
Mon 11 - Fri 15 October 2021
Wed 13 Oct 2021 13:00 - 13:15 at ESEM ROOM - Research Methods Chair(s): Tayana Conte

Software engineering is a socio-technical endeavor, and while many of our contributions focus on technical aspects, human stakeholders such as software developers are directly affected by and can benefit from our research and tool innovations. In this paper, we question how much of our research addresses human and social issues, and explore how much we study human and social aspects in our research designs. To answer these questions, we developed a socio-technical research framework to capture the main beneficiary of a research study (the who), the main type of research contribution produced (the what), and the research strategies used in the study (how we methodologically approach delivering relevant results given the who and what of our studies). We used this Who-What-How framework to analyze 151 papers from two well-cited publishing venues—the main technical track at the International Conference on Software Engineering, and the Empirical Software Engineering Journal by Springer—to assess how much this published research explicitly considers human aspects. We find that although a majority of these papers claim the contained research should benefit human stakeholders, most focus on technical contributions without engaging humans in their studies. Although our analysis is scoped to two venues, our results suggest a need for more diversification and triangulation of research strategies. In particular, there is a need for strategies that aim at a deeper understanding of human and social aspects of software development practice to balance the design and evaluation of technical innovations. We recommend that the framework should be used in the design of future studies in order to nudge software engineering research towards explicitly including human and social concerns in their designs, and to improve the relevance of our research for human stakeholders.

Wed 13 Oct

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13:00 - 14:10
Research MethodsEmerging Results and Vision papers / Technical Papers / Journal-first Papers at ESEM ROOM
Chair(s): Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas
13:00
15m
Talk
The who, what, how of software engineering research: a socio-technical framework
Journal-first Papers
Margaret-Anne Storey University of Victoria, Neil Ernst University of Victoria, Courtney Williams , Eirini Kalliamvakou University of Victoria
13:15
15m
Talk
What Evidence We would Miss If We Do not Use Grey Literature?
Technical Papers
Fernando Kamei Federal Institute of Alagoas (IFAL), Gustavo Pinto Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and Zup Innovation, Igor Scaliante Wiese Federal University of Technology – Paraná - UTFPR, Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, Sergio Soares Informatics Center - CIn/UFPE
Pre-print Media Attached
13:30
10m
Talk
Towards a Methodology for Participant Selection in Software Engineering Experiments. A Vision of the Future
Emerging Results and Vision papers
Valentina Lenarduzzi LUT University, Oscar Dieste Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Pre-print Media Attached
13:40
10m
Talk
Important Experimentation Characteristics: An Expert Survey
Emerging Results and Vision papers
Florian Auer University of Innsbruck, Michael Felderer University of Innsbruck
13:50
10m
Talk
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria in Software Engineering Tertiary Studies: A Systematic Mapping and Emerging Framework
Emerging Results and Vision papers
Dolors Costal Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Carles Farré Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Carme Quer Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
14:00
10m
Talk
Towards Sustainability of Systematic Literature Reviews
Emerging Results and Vision papers
Vinicius Santos University of São Paulo (ICMC/USP), São Carlos - SP, Anderson Y. Iwazaki University of São Paulo (ICMC/USP), São Carlos - SP, Katia Felizardo Federal Technological University of Paraná, Érica F. Souza Federal Technological University of Paraná, Cornélio Procópio - PR, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa University of São Paulo

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