About This Site
We seek repeatable, improvable, maybe even refutable, software engineering experiments.
To this end, we made this site where researchers can publish their data and the tools used to make their conclusions.
Our goal is to sharpen the tools used in software engineering:
- This site will developed or check SE methods.
- If we do our job right, then analysts in the field will know what best practices they should apply.
- Without something like PROMISE, they won’t know what to use or what to avoid.
- With PROMISE, researchers (with limited domain access) can certify that method X is probably better than method Y. And we can make such assertions regarding best practice with respect to data sets that others can access (so they can check or improve or refute our assertions).
That is, here we can sharpen our ideas together so that, in the field, analysts have sharper tools for the real-world work.
Caveat Emptor
An excessive focus on empirical results can stunt the development of innovative ideas that are, as yet, pre-experimental.
However, currently, the field of software engineering is in no danger of an excess of empiricism (to say the least).
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Dear PROMISE members,
you might be interested in participating to/contributing to/learning about the 1st International Workshop on Research 2.0 and Software Engineering.
http://planet-research20.org/r2ose2010
PROMISE is a very nice example of a software engineering repository and at same time a software engineering community. The idea of r2ose2010 is to bring together people interested in sharing resources and improving scientific processes. You can either submit a regular paper or participate on-line.
(e-)See you
Jean-marie