Good Practices in Aligning Software Engineering Research and Industry Practice

There is a long-standing challenge to narrow the gap between software engineering research and industry practice, to align their interests and realize true synergies between the two communities. Some difficulties to this challenge include mismatched agendas, priorities and expectations from the research collaboration on both sides. To overcome these difficulties, an initial step is to gain a clearer understanding of collaboration challenges from both perspectives. With this goal in mind, we organized the 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice, collocated with the International Conference on Software Engineering 2018. The workshop featured two keynote talks, one from industry and one from academia, followed by paper presentations and a round-table discussion session. Here we summarize experiences shared by the keynotes from industry and academia, along with findings from paper presentations and overall discussions by workshop participants on the ways of aligning software engineering research and industry practice.