Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Rory Tulk finished his M.Sc. with me a couple of weeks ago, and has posted a summary of his thesis on his blog. It was a solid piece of research; I'm pleased to have had a chance to work with him.
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Mike Conley (one of my grad students) is converging on a thesis topic: pre-commit continuous integration. If you have thoughts, he'd enjoy hearing them.
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Several people have recently linked to Diederik van Liere's talk "Learning from 10 yrs of Bugzilla data". If you're interested in that kind of thing, there's a whole sub-field in software engineering devoted to mining information about actual development practices from various sources. The best two places to start are:
Kagdi, Collard, ...
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
I blogged last week about Sahoo et al's paper on automated bug diagnosis and Gutiart et al's survey of performance management techniques for web apps. This week has brought two more good ones to my desk:
Artzi, Dolby, Tip, and Pistoia: "Practical Fault Localization for Dynamic Web Applications". The authors have ...
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Three of my grad students---Aran Donohue, Jason Montojo, and Rory Tulk---are wrapping up their MSc's this month. Coincidentally (OK, not really, the academic calendar being what it is), my other two students are converging on research topics. Mike Conley has got the code review bug in a big way, and ...
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
Three recent papers:
Sahoo, Criswell, and Adve: "Towards Automated Bug Diagnosis: An Empirical Study of Reported Software Bugs in Server Applications". Looked at bugs reported in six large web server apps, and discovered that most could be reproduced deterministically by replaying just a few recent inputs (in most cases, just one). ...
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Like a lot of people, I received email a few days ago from Ivar Jacobson about SEMAT (Software Engineering Method and Theory), a new initiative whose "...goal is to re-found software engineering as a rigorous discipline." I can't think of a better response than Jorge Aranda's.
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) is being held in South Africa next year. Their web site is already up, and they've just announced all the workshops and whatnot that are being held along with it. It's quite a list, and some of the acronyms are very ...
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
A special issue of Computing in Science & Engineering that Andy Lumsdaine and I edited, devoted to software engineering in computational science, is now available. We'd like to thank everyone who contributed:
Report on the Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for CSE, by Jeffrey Carver (University of Alabama)
Managing Chaos: Lessons ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Last week, in response to Google's announcement of a new programming language called Go, I said:
I’m underwhelmed: it’s as if the last 20 years of programming language research hadn’t happened.
Turns out I was being generous: read this post from start to finish, and you'll see what I mean.
So what should ...
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