The latest articles on DEV Community by john-emms (@johnemms). https://dev.to/johnemms https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F112694%2F005972c1-4c93-4b8d-8351-f4cadbca7837.png https://dev.to/johnemms en john-emms Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:34:03 +0000 https://dev.to/johnemms/if-you-have-a-paid-4-years-to-do-a-research-on-software-engineering-what-it-would-be-about-42n https://dev.to/johnemms/if-you-have-a-paid-4-years-to-do-a-research-on-software-engineering-what-it-would-be-about-42n <p>Hello Dev Community,</p> <p>Your advice/thoughts are needed!</p> <p>I am about to start a 4 years PhD journey in Software Engineering. A PhD is a long and exhausting journey and I want to make the best out of it, I don't want to spend the coming 4 years working on some hypothetical Software Engineering practices or inventing some fantasy tool that generates or refactors code. I need my PhD to be as much related to the reality as possible and to be in correlation with the software industry.</p> <p>I think you, the dev community, through your long experience in the field, have come through moments like "I wish I have enough time to research/enhance this thing". Well, here I am, I have the next 4 years to spend researching on a topic related to Software engineering. </p> <p>I am a developer, who spent some time between academia and industry, so I have been exposed to both worlds, still, a great community of devs like this must have great ideas.</p> <p>Honestly, I think it will be a great waste of time and effort if a 4 years research in software engineering will not benefit the devs community in some way.</p> <p>Your thoughts are appreciated.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> softwareengineering researchtopics