Practitioner’s Digest aims to bring practitioners into contact with research that might be of interest. Drawing on a team of correspondents, the column will highlight industry-relevant research results from software-engineering conferences. This information will appear in two formats. First, the column will provide short, one- to two-paragraph, synopses of papers presented at recent conferences. Second, from time to time, the column will present longer summaries of important articles. Feedback or suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices included in the column, please send me and the paper authors a note about your experiences. —
Jeffrey C. Carver