Experimental validation of new software technology

When to apply a new technology in an organization is acritical decision for every software development
organization. Earlier work defines a set of methods that the
research community uses when a new technology is
developed. This chapter presents a discussion of the set of
methods that industrial organizations use before adopting a
new technology. First there is a brief definition of the
earlier research methods and then a definition of the set of
industrial methods. A comparison of the two sets leads into
the perspectives of these methods of experts in the research
and industrial community via surveys made to those
communities.