Research Publication Trends in Software Engineering

Abstract

There has been outstanding growth in the field of Software Engineering. With this emergence, scholars of this area worked hard to produce researches that would really be effective in the progress of Software Engineering. New researchers always face number of problems while initiating any work. Lack of proper guideline and being progressing field, it becomes crucial to provide such detailed and up-to-date information about latest research publication trends in Software Engineering. This research has been conducted in order to address this problem and help the researcher community by providing them guidance. While conducting this study, about 57 research articles published only in 2018 have been considered from renowned Journal of Software Engineering. On the basis of title, abstract, content, contribution form, area, occurrences and citation, those articles are evaluated. Results show that software testing is on hype while comparing with development, maintenance, refactoring and management. MS scholars and PhD students surely get advantage after getting such information. This study is more focused on providing guidelines so that scholar community can emerge in a better way.