Workshop Topics
  • Validation of suggestive investigative questions
  • Communication between researchers and practitioners
  • Stakeholder involvement in empirical studies
  • Establishing relationships based on trust and relevance
  • Dealing with threats in organizational settings
  • Interpreting results in industrial contexts
  • Generalising the findings from case studies
  • Designing and conducting a family of studies
  • Impact of industrial settings on the design of, and on conducting, case studies, action research, studies in the field, exploratory studies, longitudinal studies, etc. For example: reconciling researchers' needs for "clean" and complete data and information with practitioners' situations such as missing data, privacy issues, preservation of reputation, etc.
  • Empirical results and their utility in specific industrial contexts (e.g., discovery of multiple components defects and their impact on software maintenance)