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The Good, the Hype and the Ugly
One of the most dazzling changes to the software development world in the past decade has been the spread of agile methods.
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Run-Time Assertions: What Are You Waiting For?
Would Design by Contract have avoided Heartbleed?
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Those Who Say Code Does Not Matter
Often, you will be told programming languages do not matter much. It is a pretty general rule that people arguing language does not matter are simply trying...
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Towards Empirical Answers to the Core Problems of Software Engineering
Can empirical research give us an answer to the big problems?
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Computer Science: Catch Them Early
Informatics education for primary and secondary schools
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Apocalypse No! (Part 2)
Catastrophism and reliance on dubious studies have no place in serious discussions of software engineering.
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Doing It Right or Doing It Over?
Not everyone hits on America, who for India sets sail.
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The Waves of Publication
The traditional role of publication-as-process is gone. What remains?
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Software Engineering in the Venice of the North
ESEC-FSE 2013 (in Saint Petersburg,, 18-26 August) is the place to be for software engineering in 2013.
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Conferences: Publication, Communication, Sanction
Conferences have three roles; these roles should be separated.
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A Fundamental Duality of Software Engineering
What is the value of that function for x = 6?
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John McCarthy
The contributions and personality of John McCarthy, one of the pioneers of computer science.
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The Modes and Uses of Scientific Publication
Publication is about helping the advancement of humankind. Let us take this basis for granted and look at the other, possibly less glamorous aspects. Publication...
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The Nastiness Problem in Computer Science
Are we malevolent grumps? Nothing personal, but as a community computer scientists sometimes seem to succumb to negativism.
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Long Live Incremental Research!
“Break through!” clamor the funding agencies, which scorn “incremental” research. Sure, every human being needs hype; in truth, though, almost all research—good...
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Software Verification Turns Mainstream
Verification is maturing to the point where it will become integrated into mainstream software development.
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What 'Beginning' Students Already Know: The Evidence
Detailed data collection at ETH Zurich over eight years shows what entering computer science students already know in computer usage and programming.
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Again: The One Sure Way to Advance Software Engineering
There is one proven way to improve the state of software, following the the airline industry's spectacular improvements of safety. The IT industry ignores it. Why...
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