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Understanding and improving artifact sharing in software engineering research
Empirical Software Engineering ( IF 4.1 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 , DOI: 10.1007/s10664-021-09973-5
Christopher S. Timperley , Lauren Herckis , Claire Le Goues , Michael Hilton

In recent years, many software engineering researchers have begun to include artifacts alongside their research papers. Ideally, artifacts, including tools, benchmarks, and data, support the dissemination of ideas, provide evidence for research claims, and serve as a starting point for future research. However, in practice, artifacts suffer from a variety of issues that prevent the realization of their full potential. To help the software engineering community realize the full potential of artifacts, we seek to understand the challenges involved in the creation, sharing, and use of artifacts. To that end, we perform a mixed-methods study including a survey of artifacts in software engineering publications, and an online survey of 153 software engineering researchers. By analyzing the perspectives of artifact creators, users, and reviewers, we identify several high-level challenges that affect the quality of artifacts including mismatched expectations between these groups, and a lack of sufficient reward for both creators and reviewers. Using Diffusion of Innovations (DoI) as an analytical framework, we examine how these challenges relate to one another, and build an understanding of the factors that affect the sharing and success of artifacts. Finally, we make recommendations to improve the quality of artifacts based on our results and existing best practices.



中文翻译:

了解和改善软件工程研究中的工件共享

近年来,许多软件工程研究人员已开始在其研究论文中包含工件。理想情况下,包括工具,基准和数据在内的工件可以支持思想的传播,为研究主张提供证据,并作为未来研究的起点。然而,在实践中,人工制品遭受各种问题的困扰,这些问题阻碍了其全部潜能的实现。为了帮助软件工程界实现工件的全部潜力,我们试图了解在工件的创建,共享和使用中所涉及的挑战。为此,我们进行了混合方法研究,其中包括对软件工程出版物中工件的调查,以及对153名软件工程研究人员的在线调查。通过分析工件创建者,用户和审阅者的观点,我们确定了影响工件质量的几个高级挑战,包括这些组之间的期望不匹配,以及创作者和审稿者都缺乏足够的回报。使用创新扩散(DoI)作为分析框架,我们研究了这些挑战如何相互关联,并加深了对影响工件共享和成功的因素的理解。最后,我们根据结果和现有最佳实践提出建议,以提高工件的质量。并了解影响工件共享和成功的因素。最后,我们根据结果和现有最佳实践提出建议,以提高工件的质量。并了解影响工件共享和成功的因素。最后,我们根据结果和现有最佳实践提出建议,以提高工件的质量。

更新日期:2021-05-11
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