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...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | January 13, 2011 at 01:53 PM
Watts Humphrey left us a few weeks ago. His contributions to professional software engineering have been essential.Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | November 15, 2010 at 03:27 PM
There is a simple way to make refereeing better, almost overnight. It takes a bit of courage, but it would restore honesty and quality to the process.Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | October 20, 2010 at 09:21 PM
One obstacle is hampering the progress of empirical software engineering: we are still missing a culture of reproducibility
Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | October 27, 2009 at 09:55 AM
Empirical software engineering papers, at places like the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), used to be terrible. There were exceptions, of...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | October 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM