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The Impact Project: Publications

2008

Osterweil, Leon J.; Ghezzi, Carlo; Kramer, Jeff; Wolf, Alexander L. Determining the Impact of Software Engineering Research on Practice . IEEE Computer, Volume 41, Issue 3, March 2008 Page(s):39 - 49.

2007

Emmerich, W., Aoyama, M., and Sventek, J. The Impact of Research on Middleware Technology. SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes 32, 1 (Jan. 2007), 21-46.

2006

Clarke, L. A. and Rosenblum, D. S. Historical Perspective on Runtime Assertion Checking in Software Development. SIGSOFT Software Eng. Notes 31, 3 (May. 2006), 25-37.

2005

Osterweil, L., Ghezzi, C., Kramer, J., and Wolf, A. Editorial. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 14, 4 (Oct. 2005), 381-382.
Estublier, J., Leblang, D., Hoek, A., Conradi, R., Clemm, G., Tichy, W., and Wiborg-Weber, D. Impact of software engineering research on the practice of software configuration management. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 14, 4 (Oct. 2005), 383-430.
Ryder, B. G., Soffa, M. L., and Burnett, M. The impact of software engineering research on modern progamming languages. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 14, 4 (Oct. 2005), 431-477.

2003

Barbara G. Ryder, Mary Lou Soffa, "Influences on the design of exception handling ACM SIGSOFT project on the impact of software engineering research on programming language design". ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 28 , Issue 4 (July 2003) - pdf

2002

Jacky Estublier, David Leblang, Geoff Clemm, Reidar Conradi, Walter Tichy, André van der Hoek, Darcy Wiborg, "Impact of the research community on the field of software configuration management: summary of an impact project report". ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 27 , Issue 5 (September 2002) - pdf
The Impact whitepaper discusses the motivations, goals, and the adopted work methodology of the Impact project. Also, at the end it briefly summarizes the basic findings in selected areas (namely, Configuration Management, Modern Programming Languages, and Reviews and Walkthroughs) where research has already led to consolidated results.