Building and acquiring software requires making many decisions and choosing between numerous solutions, yet the infrastructure to help people make decisions based on good evidence isn't well developed. The software engineering community needs better communication between researchers and practitioners to help make useful bodies of evidence available that can impact practice.
Index Terms:
evidence, software, empirical software engineering, studies, observation, research
Citation:
Forrest Shull, "Who Needs Evidence, Anyway?," IEEE Software, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 10-11, Sep./Oct. 2007, doi:10.1109/MS.2007.152