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Guidelines for Artifacts to Support Industry-Relevant Research on Self-Adaptation

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 47, Issue 4

Pages 18 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/3561846.3561852

Published: 28 September 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Artifacts support evaluating new research results and help comparing them with the state of the art in a field of interest. Over the past years, several artifacts have been introduced to support research in the field of self-adaptive systems. While these artifacts have shown their value, it is not clear to what extent these artifacts support research on problems in self-adaptation that are relevant to industry. This paper provides a set of guidelines for artifacts that aim at supporting industry-relevant research on selfadaptation. The guidelines that are grounded on data obtained from a survey with practitioners were derived during working sessions at the 17th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems. Artifact providers can use the guidelines for aligning future artifacts with industry needs; they can also be used to evaluate the industrial relevance of existing artifacts. We also propose an artifact template.

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 47, Issue 4

October 2022

31 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/3561846

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