16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2009)

In academia, staggering and extensive research activities on software process can be seen happening, which encompass a range of topics that cover requirements analysis, design, implementation, verification and validation, deployment and maintenance. As interesting as the research activities may be, often the research lacks the real practice experience. The real practice takes place in the industries, where the theories are put into practice in actual settings. The only downside to this is the lack of research value in their product development. For instance, a number of off-the-shelf systems lack robustness or have slow performance and they often miss out on the usability aspect of the system, mainly interaction and responsiveness. Synergizing academic and industry will definitely complement each other and at the same time, will reduce the gap between industries and academia. This conference will be the platform for the academics, researchers and practitioners to discuss, amongst others, the role of institutions of higher learning in equipping the students with the right skills set for the industries, the ways we can realize theoretical research findings in actual context and the role of industries in strengthening research activities and development. These efforts reflect the aim of synergizing research and practice towards quality software.