Experience Report Criteria Protocol
Strongly agree. We weeded out the four out the five patterns related experience reports for last years OOPSLA on this basis. If the report didn't have something significant to say about how patterns affected the project in some way, they just weren't interesting. Some people talked about the improved communication and faster learning aspect while others talked about the cleanliness of the architecture and the 'perceived' shorter design time. Unfortunately no hard metrics were available yet although I think at this stage it was still of value to report experiences with patterns just prove to the OOPSLA community at large that folks were seriously using the stuff and achieving at least some perceived benefit. Coincidently, the reports were well received by the OOPSLA audience despite the lack of hard evidence. I suspect this is due to the novelty of patterns with the majority of OOPSLA attendees.
--?StevePeterson
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