Using IndustryAsLaboratory CaseStudies To Impact Industrial Practice

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Using Industry-As-Laboratory Case-Studies To
Impact Industrial Practice

• Laurie Williams
• Assistant Professor
• North Carolina State University

Real Engineers - Real Projects - Real Impact
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Software Technology Maturation
Wheres the beef . . . . validation?
Redwine, S. and Riddle, S., Software Technology
Maturation, ICSE 1985.
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Software Technology Maturation
State-of-art Impact researchers
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Software Technology Maturation
Focus of case study-based research
State-of-practice Impact practitioners
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Process/Technology Evaluation
-Evaluation Framework
-Context Factors (-cf)
-Adherence Metrics (-am)
-Outcome Measures (-om)

• XP-EF ? XP-cf XP-am XP-om
• RUP-EF ? RUP-cf RUP-am RUP-om
• TSP-EF ? TSP-cf TSP-am TSP-om
• XP2-EF ? XP2-cf XP2-am XP2-om

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Sabre XP Context Factors(XP-cf)
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Sabre-A XP-Adherence Metrics (XP-am)

• Subjective Shodan Survey
• 76.7
• Example survey at http//agile.csc.ncsu.edu/surve
  y/shodan_survey.html
• Objective Metrics
• Strive for a robust set of metrics that can be
  collected automatically
• Sabre-A results indicate an increase in XP use

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Sabre-A XP-Outcome Measures (XP-om)

• Normalized values

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Challenges And Opportunities

• Salience check
• Finding partners, obtaining measures, timing of
  completion
• Acceptance of research results
• Industrial participation
• N1
• Support evidence-based software engineering
• Impact on industrial practice