Never Work in Theory @neverworktheory
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"software developers only spend a quarter of their time engineering tests, whereas they think they test half of their time" and other disappointing-but-unsurprising results neverworkintheory.org/2017/11/26/dev…
"there is no difference in terms of effort, effectiveness, and efficiency to fix faults, when source code contains either only abbreviated or only full-word identifier names" neverworkintheory.org/2017/11/26/abb…
@pauldambra @neverworktheory @gvwilson Something like this maybe? ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/66194…
@gvwilson @neverworktheory are you aware of any work on the impact of retrospectives?
A new draft of "Empirical Software Engineering Using R" is out: neverworkintheory.org/2017/05/08/emp… shaping up to be a great resource.
NWIT is on hiatus until further notice neverworkintheory.org/2016/12/01/hia… If you can, please join projects like sfbay.techsolidarity.org/2016/11/28/mee…
Empirical Software Engineering Using R: neverworkintheory.org/2016/11/02/emp…
@lhochstein @neilernst @neverworktheory I’ve written about this problem: catenary.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/exp… and tangentially: catenary.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/the…
@jaipelai that’s @gvwilson ’s hunch as well
Yet another study of test-driven development finds that it has no measurable effect: neverworkintheory.org/2016/10/05/tes…
FIDEX: Filtering Spreadsheet Data using Examples neverworkintheory.org/2016/10/02/fil…
Revisiting the Anatomy and Physiology of the Grid: neverworkintheory.org/2016/10/02/gri… painstaking, insightful, and valuable work
Apex: Automatic Programming Assignment Error Explanation neverworkintheory.org/2016/10/01/ape… excellent example of how engineering ought to be done
Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git: neverworkintheory.org/2016/09/30/ret…
Paradise Unplugged: neverworkintheory.org/2016/09/21/par…
Five excellent CS Education research papers from this year's ICER conference neverworkintheory.org/2016/09/16/fiv…
ACM Permits Authors to Post Open Access Copies of Their Own Work: neverworkintheory.org/2016/09/09/acm… please share with colleagues
You Keep Using That Word: neverworkintheory.org/2016/09/09/you…
Multi-Site Joint Replication of a Design Patterns Experiment Using Moderator Variables to Generalize Across Contexts neverworkintheory.org/2016/09/09/rep…
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