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> software engineering research Empirical SE research is part of the social sciences. The subset of SE research that doesn't push hard for collaboration with s
by throwawaygh 5y ago
> software engineering research
Empirical SE research is part of the social sciences. The subset of SE research that doesn't push hard for collaboration with social science departments is doing just fine.
- UncleMeat 5y ago"I built a tool and it found this many bugs" doesn't feel like part of the social sciences, but these papers are regularly published in ICSE and FSE. I listed Software Engineering because it is one of the fields I know well but is way less esoteric than the other one I know well (PL). You'll find the same kinds of replication problems in POPL or OOPSLA papers too. I suspect that other subfields don't fare any better. I certainly hear from my ML friends that a huge portion of ML results are untrustworthy.
- throwawaygh 5y ago> "I built a tool and it found this many bugs" doesn't feel like part of the social sciences, but these papers are regularly published in ICSE and FSE. Those papers have lots of issues, especially cherry-picking and narration of the results' significance. But the core claim -- "I found N bugs in the following codebases" -- is generally reproducible.