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| 4 | +title: "SIGSOFT Impact Project" |
| 5 | +--- |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +Impact Project |
| 8 | +============== |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +The Impact Project is an ongoing initiative whose goal is to determine the impact of software engineering research upon software engineering practice. The project organizes volunteers who are among the world's most eminent software engineering researchers and practitioners to develop solidly researched documentation that will aid future research, education, and technology transition. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +The Impact Project identifies and documents research contributions that have had substantial impact, determines the research modalities that have been successful, identifies technology transition approaches that have worked best, and anticipates directions that software engineering research might most effectively pursue, based on its history and positioning. Project results are useful to the software engineering research and practitioner communities, to other academic disciplines, to government funding agencies, and to the public by helping to objectively assess the software engineering community's record of achievement. The project also provides a case study of how a scientific community works, and what approaches both hamper and improve its effectiveness. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +The project is a special initiative of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Software Engineering (SIGSOFT). It is funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.K. Institute of Electrical Engineers. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +The project has two organizational thrusts: |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +1. to seek, on a technology-by-technology basis, the sources of the ideas, designs, and working prototypes of widely used software technologies |
| 19 | +2. to examine the ways in which software engineering research directions and areas have been synergized into commonly used technologies. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +The project's output will be a series of documents and briefings targeted to different audiences. One audience is software engineering researchers and practitioners, for whom the project should shed light on the effectiveness of past efforts to improve software utility and quality, and suggest how to improve future effectiveness. A second audience is the other disciplines of computer science and engineering, (such as programming languages, operating systems, databases, and theory), for whom the project should provide insights into the sources of current technology and approaches for making research more effective in influencing practice. A third audience is decision makers in both government and industry who set research investment priorities. The documents and briefings should help them render more informed and publicly defensible judgments by providing them with greater insight into the challenges, failures, and successes of technology transfer. Finally, project output will aid teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, providing a solid historical basis upon which to develop exciting new course materials. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +The [Impact whitepaper](/impact/impactwhitepaper) 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](/impact/impactwhitepaper#software-configuration-management |
| 24 | +), [Modern Programming Languages](/impact/impactwhitepaper#modern-programming-languages |
| 25 | +), and [Reviews and Walkthroughs](/impact/impactwhitepaper#inspections-reviews-and-walkthroughs)) where research has already led to consolidated results. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +Presentations |
| 28 | +------------- |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +### Panel Presentations |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +* ICSE 2002 Impact panel: the panel introduction by Leon J. Osterweil ([pdf](/impact/icse2002impactpanel.pdf)) |
| 33 | +* OOPSLA 2001 Impact panel |
| 34 | + * The panel introduction by Leon J. Osterweil ([pdf](/impact/oopsla2001impactpanel.pdf)) |
| 35 | + * Barbara G. Ryder's talk ([pdf](/impact/oopsla2001impactpanelryder.pdf)) |
| 36 | + * Alexander L. Wolf's talk ([pdf](/impact/oopsla2001impactpanelwolf.pdf)) |
| 37 | +* ICSE 2001 Impact panel: the panel introduction by Leon J. Osterweil ([pdf](/impact/icse2001impactpanel.pdf)) |
| 38 | +* ICSE 2000 Impact panel: the panel introduction by Leon J. Osterweil ([pdf](/impact/icse2000impactpanel.pdf)) |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +### Impact talks |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +* BCS 2008, "The Impact of Software Engineering Research on Software Engineering Practice" by Alexander Wolf ([pdf](/impact/bcs2008impactwolf.pdf)) |
| 43 | +* ICSE 2007, "Impact of Research on Middleware Technology," by Wolfgang Emmerich, Mikio Aoyama, and Joe Sventek ([pdf](/impact/emmerichmiddlewareimpact.pdf)) ([ppt](/impact/emmerichmiddlewareimpact.ppt)) |
| 44 | +* IEE 2001, "The Impact Project: Tracing the Source of Software Engineering Technology to its Origins"; by Leon J. Osterweil ([pdf](/impact/iee20impacttalk.pdf)) |
| 45 | +* ISSTA 2000, "The Impact Project"; by Leon J. Osterweil ([pdf](/impact/issta2000impacttalk.pdf)) |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +Publications |
| 48 | +------------ |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +### 2008 |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +* Dieter Rombach, Marcus Ciolkowski, Ross Jeffery, Oliver Laitenberger, Frank McGarry, Forrest Shull. [Impact of research on practice in the field of inspections, reviews and walkthroughs: learning from successful industrial uses](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1449603.1449609). In _SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes_ 33:6 (November 2008), 26-35. |
| 53 | +* Wolfgang Emmerich, Mikio Aoyama, Joe Sventek. [The Impact of Research on the Development of Middleware Technology](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/13487689.13487692). _ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol._ 17:4 (August 2008), 1-48. |
| 54 | +* Leon J. Osterweil, Carlo Ghezzi, Jeff Kramer, Alexander L. Wolf. [Determining the Impact of Software Engineering Research on Practice](https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2008.85). _IEEE Computer_, 41:3 (March 2008), 39-49. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +### 2007 |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +* Emmerich, W., Aoyama, M., and Sventek, J. [The Impact of Research on Middleware Technology](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1226816.1226829). In _SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes_ 32:1 (January 2007), 21-46. |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +### 2006 |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +* Clarke, L. A. and Rosenblum, D. S. [Historical Perspective on Runtime Assertion Checking in Software Development](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1127878.1127900). In _SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes_ 31:3 (May 2006), 25-37. |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +### 2005 |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +* Osterweil, L., Ghezzi, C., Kramer, J., and Wolf, A. [Editorial.](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101815.1101816). In _ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology_ 14:4 (October 2005), 381-382. |
| 67 | +* 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.](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101815.1101817). In _ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology_ 14:4 (October 2005), 383-430. |
| 68 | +* Ryder, B. G., Soffa, M. L., and Burnett, M. [The impact of software engineering research on modern progamming languages.](http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101815.1101818). In _ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology_ 14:4 (October 2005), 431-477. |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +### 2003 |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +* 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](http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=882258&coll=portal&dl=ACM). In _SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes_, 28:4 (July 2003). |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +### 2002 |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +* 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](http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=571689&coll=portal&dl=ACM). In _SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes_, 27:5 (September 2002). |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +Contacts |
| 79 | +-------- |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +These are the members of the Impact Project Executive Committee: |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +### Chair: [Leon J. Osterweil](http://laser.cs.umass.edu/people/ljo.html) |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | +Department of Computer Science |
| 86 | +140 Governor's Drive |
| 87 | +University of Massachusetts |
| 88 | +Amherst, MA 01003-9264 USA |
| 89 | +Tel: +1 413.545.2186 |
| 90 | +Fax: +1 413.545.1249 |
| 91 | +ljo (at) cs (dot) umass (dot) edu |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +### Members |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +### [Carlo Ghezzi](http://www.elet.polimi.it/upload/ghezzi) |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +DEI-Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione |
| 98 | +Politecnico di Milano |
| 99 | +Piazza L. da Vinci 32 |
| 100 | +I-20133 Milano, Italia |
| 101 | +Tel: +39 02.2399.3529 |
| 102 | +Fax: +39 02.2399.3411 |
| 103 | +carlo (dot) ghezzi (at) polimi (dot) it |
| 104 | + |
| 105 | +### [Jeff Kramer](http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jk/) |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +Department of Computing |
| 108 | +Imperial College, |
| 109 | +180 Queen's Gate |
| 110 | +London SW7 2AZ, UK |
| 111 | +Tel: +44 20.7594.8271 |
| 112 | +Fax: +44 20.7594.8282 |
| 113 | +jk (at) doc (dot) ic (dot) ac (dot) uk |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | +### [Alexander Wolf](http://www.cs.colorado.edu/users/alw) |
| 116 | + |
| 117 | +Department of Computer Science |
| 118 | +ECOT 717, Campus Box 430 |
| 119 | +University of Colorado |
| 120 | +Boulder, CO 80309-0430 |
| 121 | +Tel: +1 303.492.5263 |
| 122 | +Fax: +1 303.492.2844 |
| 123 | +alw (at) cs (dot) colorado (dot) edu |
| 124 | + |
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