According to this study you should because expert release planning is 40% less efficient than automated planning. However this is only for simulated projects. In their next work the researchers will try the approach on real project data…
CMU and IBM have developed “CogTool“. “CogTool analyzes tasks performed on an interactive system from a storyboard and a demonstration of tasks on that storyboard, and predicts the time a skilled user will take to perform those tasks.” I think this kind of tool will be really helpful for any…
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Java is still the number 1 programming language according to Tiobe.
There are many kinds of testing. Detailled scripted manual test cases are quite popular but an article at testzonen.se might be an eye-opener if that is your favourite kind of test case. According to the article, these test cases are a waste of time and effort and demeaning to the…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1929887.1929893
I find this rather exciting, generating / optimizing your whole test suite automatically.
We all know that many real life software projects are large. Some are even obscenly large. But in universities students engage in smaller projects or as individual contributors. Can and should software engineering education be made more realistic in that students work in large scale projects? In “A Software Engineering…
I have subscribed to the business 901 podcast on my android phone for about six months or so. The podcasts are always entertaining and informative regardless if you are into agile software development or lean manufacturing. This episode of the podcast stands out as especially interesting: http://business901.com/blog1/why-architecture-is-needed-even-in-agile/
According to some Norwegian researchers, agile software development in small and medium sized enterprises does not result in more secure software. Their solution is to make some ‘extensions’ to agile development methodology. I am sceptical. I think it would be a matter of how the agile methods are applied not…
Requirements need to be more precise than just “making sense”.
