The Impact Project: Determining the Impact of Software Engineering Research upon Practice

影响项目：确定软件工程研究对实践的影响影响项目是美国和欧盟软件工程师之间的国际合作，其目标是研究软件工程研究对软件开发实践的影响。这样做的原因包括：确定有实质性影响的贡献，确定相对更成功的研究模式，并根据其历史和定位预测软件工程研究可能最有效地追求的方向。影响项目研究将对软件工程研究和开发社区，以及其他学术学科，政府资助机构，以及帮助客观评估软件工程社区的成就记录的公众有用。该项目将作为ACM SIGSOFT的一项特别倡议进行，ACM SIGSOFT将提供部分支持。研究工作由执行委员会领导的指导委员会协调。这项工作本身将有两个组织性的重点：1)在逐个技术的基础上寻找广泛使用的软件技术的思想、设计和工作原型的来源，以及2)检查软件工程研究方向和领域被激发或合并到常用技术中的方式。该项目的产出将是针对不同受众的一系列文件和简报。

The Impact Project: Determining the Impact of Software Engineering Research upon Practice The goal of the Impact Project, an international collaboration among U.S. and European Union software engineers, is to study the impact that software engineering research has had upon software development practice. The reasons for doing this include: identifying contributions that have had substantial impact, determining research modalities that have been relatively more successful, and anticipating the directions that software engineering research might most effectively pursue, based upon its history and positioning. Impact Project research will be useful to the software engineering research and development communities, as well as to other academic disciplines, government funding agencies, and the public at large in helping with the objective assessment of the software engineering community's record of achievement. The project is to be carried out as a special initiative of ACM SIGSOFT, which will provide partial support. The research work is to be coordinated by steering committee, led by an Executive Committee. The work itself will have two organizational thrusts: 1) to seek on a technology-by-technology basis, the source of the ideas, designs, and working prototypes of widely used software technologies, and 2) to examine the ways in which software engineering research directions and areas have stimulated or been amalgamated into commonly used technologies. The output of the project will be series of documents and briefings targeted to different audiences.