Values and Principles

We, that is all researchers contributing to NaPiRE, commit ourselves to certain values and principles. These are:

• Openness: Openness begins by cordially inviting researchers and practitioners of any software engineering related community to contribute to NaPiRE and ends by disclosing our (anonymised) raw data and reports without any restrictions or commercial interest to the public.
• Transparency: All results obtained from the distributed surveys are open to the public (after appropriate curation), including the (anonymised) raw data, codebooks, and (statistical) analysis scripts and code sheets from the qualitative coding. This shall allow other researchers for an independent data analysis, interpretation, and replication.
• Anonymity (while closed): The participation in NaPiRE as an industrial respondent is possible by invitation only. This serves the purpose of obtaining a transparent result set and response rate. However, no personal data is collected and every data set obtained from the survey will be carefully analysed for information that might be traced back to a specific company to ensure that no personal data will be disclosed to public. That is, we guarantee that no answer set can be related to survey participants.
• Accuracy and Validity: With accuracy and validity, we refer in particular to the data collection and to the data analysis procedures. Each question in the survey is carefully defined according a jointly elaborated theory to specifically corroborate or refute existing expectations. The data analysis is furthermore performed in joint collaboration by different researchers to maximise the validity of the results.

NaPiRE is a community effort as it results from a collaboration between members of the empirical software engineering research community under the umbrella of the International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN). It is, however, open for everybody to join in contributing to NaPiRE.

How can I contribute to NaPiRE?

NaPiRE is centrally organised following a coordinated process. Each survey is conducted independently by different (self-organised) teams on a two-year basis via our central infrastructure. After each round, the national teams commit themselves (after they potentially publish their results on their own) to disclose the raw (anonymised) data. At the end of each replication cycle, we synthesise the results obtained from the different countries and publish a joint report on the overall results and synergies between national-specific trends. All the reports will be also published on this website.

Everybody can therefore contribute to NaPiRE, either as a respondent or as an organiser running a national instance of NaPiRE. In case you are interested in contributing as a respondent, please contact the organiser of your respective country. In case you are interested in supporting as an organiser, please contact the general organisers.

How can I benefit from NaPiRE?

As researcher and practitioner as well, you benefit from NaPiRE as it shall:

1. provide a long-term investigation of current state of RE practices, problems, and potential mitigations.
2. support a problem-driven RE research where scientific contributions to RE can be put in tune with practically relevant problems.

NaPiRE allows researchers to steer and evaluate their own research, and it serves as a basis which can be complemented with further empirical inquiries (e.g. via experiments or case studies). It further allows practitioners to evaluate their own current RE situation against industrial trends.

By contributing as a respondent, you can add your personal views and experiences on RE to our knowledge base. By contributing as an organiser, you can actively steer the development of NaPiRE covering those facets that are in your particular research field.

General Organisers

• Daniel Méndez Fernández, Technical University of Munich
• Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart
• Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck
• Marcos Kalinowski, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Team Members / Country Representatives

NaPiRE Argentina

• Gabriela Robiolo, Universidad Austral

NaPiRE Australia

• Didar Zowghi, University of Technology Sydney

NaPiRE Austria

• Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck
• Dietmar Winkler, Technical University of Vienna, SBA Research gGmbH
• Stefan Biffl, Technical University of Vienna

NaPiRE Brazil

• Marcos Kalinowski, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
• Alessandro Garcia, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
• Rodrigo Spinola, UNIFACS/Fraunhofer Project Center at UFBA
• Rafael Prikladnicki, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS)
• Tayana Conte, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM)

NaPiRE Canada

• Günther Ruhe, University of Calgary
• Maleknaz Nayebi, University of Calgary

NaPiRE China

• Qing Wang, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences

NaPiRE Cuba

• Marelis Perez Garcia, Universidad de las Ciencias Informaticas

NaPiRE Ecuador

• Efrain R. Fonseca C., Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE
• Cecilia Hinojosa, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE

NaPiRE Estonia

• Dietmar Pfahl, University of Tartu

NaPiRE Finland

• Markku Oivo, University of Oulu
• Tomi Männistö, University of Helsinki
• Casper Lassenius, Aalto University

NaPiRE Germany

• Daniel Méndez Fernández, Technical University of Munich
• Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart
• Kristian Beckers, Siemens
• Andreas Vogelsang, Technical University of Berlin
• Daniel Graziotin, University of Stuttgart
• Yvonne Sedelmaier, Coburg University of applied sciences and the arts

NaPiRE India

• Sulabh Tyagi, University of Delhi

NaPiRE Italy

• Marco Torchiano, Politecnico di Torino

NaPiRE Japan

• Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Osaka University

NaPiRE Luxembourg

• Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, University of Luxembourg

NaPiRE Netherlands

• Maya Daneva, University of Twente
• Roel Wieringa, University of Twente
• Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University

NaPiRE New Zealand

• Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury
• Kelly Blincoe, University of Auckland

NaPiRE Norway

• Pekka Abrahamsson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Sagar Sen, Simula Research Laboratory
• Thor Myklebust, SINTEF

NaPiRE Portugal

• Catarina Gralha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• Miguel Goulão, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

NaPiRE Spain

• Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
• Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
• Albert Tort Pugibet, Sogeti Spain
• Jose Luis de la Vara, Carlos III University of Madrid

NaPiRE Sweden

• Marie-Therese Christiansson, Karlstads Universitet
• André Schekelmann, Hochschule Niederrhein
• Krzysztof Wnuk, Blekinge Institute of Technolog

NaPiRE Switzerland

• Martin Glinz, University of Zurich

NaPiRE United Kingdom

• Desmond Greer, Queen’s University Belfast

NaPiRE Uruguay

• Martin Solari, Unviesidad ORT Uruguay
• Santiago Matalonga, Unviesidad ORT Uruguay

NaPiRE USA

• Birgit Penzenstadler, California State University, Long Beach
• Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama

Further Contributors

• Barry Boehm, University of Southern California
• Manfred Broy, Technische Universität München
• Giovanni Cantone, University of Rome
• Marcela Genero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
• Jürgen Münch, University of Helsinki
• Dave Zubrow, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon