[JonChesterfield]

"Empirical software research" could mean a bunch of different things. This article is about studying people writing software, not about software used for research in empirical sciences, and not about research into computer science.

I'm confident the answer to what follows from that is "nothing yet" based on various conference talks. Studying developers (or in a worse case students) writing software doesn't seem to be an effective way of working out how to write software better/faster/whatever.

[rramadass]

I think this is what is being meant;

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_software_engineering (ESE)

Popular: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/empirical-software...

Microsoft has a ESE group with some interesting publications. I had read/downloaded a couple a while ago which unfortunately i can't now remember nor locate. But this is a good starting point - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/belief-...