The paper maps LLM impacts onto the SE research pipeline with McLuhan's Tetrad, predicting enhancements, obsolescence, retrievals, and reversals, and calls for community action.
Teaching Theorizing in Software Engineering Research
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This chapter seeks to support software engineering (SE) researchers and educators in teaching the importance of theory as well as the theorizing process. Drawing on insights from other fields, the chapter presents 12 intermediate products of theorizing and what they mean in an SE context. These intermediate products serve different roles: some are theory products to frame research studies, some are theory generators, and others are components of theory. Whereas the SE domain doesn't have many theories of its own, these intermediate products of theorizing can be found widely. The chapter aims to help readers to recognize these intermediate products, their role, and how they can help in the theorizing process within SE research. To illustrate their utility, the chapter then applies the set of intermediate theorizing products to the software architecture research field. The chapter ends with a suggested structure for a 12-week course on theorizing in SE which can be readily adapted by educators.
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Get on the Train or be Left on the Station: Using LLMs for Software Engineering Research
The paper maps LLM impacts onto the SE research pipeline with McLuhan's Tetrad, predicting enhancements, obsolescence, retrievals, and reversals, and calls for community action.