Background Assessing and communicating software engineering research can be challenging. Design science is recognized as an appropriate research paradigm for applied research, but is rarely explicitly used as a way to present planned or achieved research contributions in software engineering. Applying the design science lens to software engineering research may improve the assessment and communication of research contributions. Aim The aim of this study is 1) to understand whether the design science lens helps summarize and assess software engineering research contributions, and 2) to characterize different types of design science contributions in the software engineering literature. Method In previous research, we developed a visual abstract template, summarizing the core constructs of the design science paradigm. In this study, we use this template in a review of a set of 38 award winning software engineering publications to extract, analyze and characterize their design science contributions. Results We identified five clusters of papers, classifying them according to their different types of design science contributions. Conclusions The design science lens helps emphasize the theoretical contribution of research output—in terms of technological rules—and reflect on the practical relevance, novelty and rigor of the rules proposed by the research.

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软件工程研究如何与设计科学保持一致：综述

背景 评估和交流软件工程研究可能具有挑战性。设计科学被认为是应用研究的适当研究范式，但很少被明确用作展示软件工程中计划或已实现的研究贡献的方式。将设计科学镜头应用于软件工程研究可以改善对研究贡献的评估和交流。目的 本研究的目的是 1) 了解设计科学镜头是否有助于总结和评估软件工程研究贡献，以及 2) 描述软件工程文献中不同类型的设计科学贡献。方法 在之前的研究中，我们开发了一个视觉抽象模板，总结了设计科学范式的核心结构。在这项研究中，我们在审查一组 38 份获奖软件工程出版物时使用此模板，以提取、分析和描述他们的设计科学贡献。结果 我们确定了五组论文，根据他们不同类型的设计科学贡献对它们进行分类。结论 设计科学镜头有助于强调研究成果的理论贡献——就技术规则而言——并反思研究提出的规则的实际相关性、新颖性和严谨性。