Report from the 2nd international workshop on replication in empirical software engineering research (RESER 2011)

The RESER workshop provides a venue in which empirical software engineering researchers can discuss the theoretical foundations and methods of replication, as well as present the results of specific replicated studies. In 2011, the workshop co-located with the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) in Banff, Alberta, Canada. In addition to several outstanding paper sessions, highlights of the 2011 workshop included a keynote address by Dr. Victor R. Basili, in which he addressed the question, "What's so hard about replication of software engineering experiments?" The workshop also featured a joint replication panel session discussing the first cooperative joint replication ever conducted in empirical software engineering research and a planning session for next year's joint replication project addressing Conway's Law.