Abstract
The gulf between industry and academic interests in Software Engineering appears to continue to widen. With software taking on an ever-growing role in society, it is somewhat concerning that the interests and research focuses of academic software engineers seem to rarely overlap with industry interests. In this editorial, I hypothesize four major concerns I have with the applicability of much of the research in this area. I also surface the important meta question: What is Software Engineering Research? Is this the study of software engineers, or the study of best practices in software engineering? Does academic SE research owe more to anthropology, or the study of what makes software successful?
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