Software engineering research: from cradle to grave

Abstract

Although this is a talk about the design of predictive models to determine where faults are likely to be in the next release of a large software system, the primary focus of the talk is the process that was followed when doing this type of software engineering research. We follow the project from problem inception (cradle) to productization (grave), describing each of the intermediate stages to try to give a picture of why such research takes so long, and also why it is necessary to perform each of the steps.