Micro NWIT

From 2011 to 2023, It Will Never Work in Theory tried to bridge the gulf between theory and practice in software engineering by publishing short summaries of empirical software engineering research and hosting talks by their authors. Our post-mortem describes that effort and analyzes its failure; this page reprints very short summaries I’ve posted on Mastodon since NWIT shut down. I will update it sporadically; each time I do, I will dream of a world in which every undergraduate software engineering student is taught how to do studies like these so that they can evaluate and apply these findings.