Tichy’s main impediment

• Walter Tichy has claimed that the major impediment is the lack of “experiments” in CS research

  • “Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? 16 Excuses to Avoid Experimentation.” IEEE Computer 31(5), May 1998.
  • http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~tichy/

• I have lots of reactions, including

  • I don’t think industry, as a rule, finds this to be a (the) major impediment
  • We do experimentation, in a different style
  • Evaluation is difficult in software engineering, so we must be creative
  • This is an example of science envy

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