Introduction The core of Information Systems (IS) has long been suggested to be software engineering. Software Engineering Research Methodology (SERM) can be known as an approach that mixed a galaxy of new concepts and emerging information technologies and then express this mixture in an innovative artefact in order to do some academic knowledge to basic research field and prompt the further research in the relevant fields. There need to construct a paradigm that can completely describes research using SERM approaches. A SERM framework based on this paradigm is presented to allow developmental research to be performed using a stringent methodology.

Software Engineering as Research Research can be described as a scientific approach rather than one of the several different ways of promoting building and understanding of new knowledge. Moreover, scientific research is defined as a process of systemic inquiry conducted with the protection of a theoretical infrastructure. Research and evaluation, which is similar to research, can be distinguished by using theory as the fundamental. As Mertens argues that evaluation is associated with the acquiring of information for decision making in a given environment, however, research, which means a wider field, is more typically connected with contributing new knowledge that can be used in the relative fields Can software engineering be research? According to the definitions from Sir Karl Popper (1980) and Blake (1978), whether or not something is research depends on the nature of the questions asked rather than on the method used to test a theory. Software engineering, which is the main part of system development, can be considered as a scientific research under the criteria. Paradigms are constituted of assumptions both about the knowledge and the approach to master it and about the reality and society. The