A report on 1st Software Engineering Research in India Update Meeting (SERI 2019)

Software Engineering Researchers in India from both academia and industry are widely contributing to various research problems. In this report, we brie y summarize the key insights from 1st Software Engineering Research in India Update Meeting (SERI 2019), which provides a platform for all the researchers to present and discuss their research work. The essence of this research meeting is to examine the current research areas within the software engineering research community and discover the scope of collaboration. Speci cally, the rst SERI update meeting had a series of invited research talks presented by researchers from academia and industry representing various software engineering labs across India. These talks unveiled notable views through presentations and group discussions, and cogitation of topics that can lead to fruitful collaborations between software engineering researchers and industry practitioners. The main objective of this update meeting is the exchange of research areas that promotes successful short-term and long-term collaborations.