Disseminating the Best Material to Practitioners

The Mission First, this department’s mission is to disseminate the best material that’s relevant to software practitioners. This mission is straightforward, but not always easily accomplished. Many other IEEE Software departments attract great, practitioneroriented articles. We don’t aim to overlap with them and the regular focus and feature articles; rather, we seek niche, even emerging topics relevant to software engineering professionals—that is, practitioners. Most important, we aim to provide perspectives on topics we believe are starting to have (or will have) a real, lasting impact on how developers work and how projects are developed. When we say “emerging topics,” it’s important to de ne what we mean. Many technologies might qualify, but we suggest looking at the IEEE CS 2022 Report as a guide.1 It was created by a panel of IEEE Computer Society technology leaders, led by 2014 president Dejan Milojičić. In a series of focused Disseminating the Best Material to Practitioners