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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/2017/1…
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"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/2017/1…
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Markus Borg@mrksbrg6 Jul 2017
Replying to @pauldambra @neverworktheory
Something like this maybe? ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…
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A new draft of "Empirical Software Engineering Using R" is out: neverworkintheory.org/2017/0… shaping up to be a great resource.
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NWIT is on hiatus until further notice neverworkintheory.org/2016/1… If you can, please join projects like sfbay.techsolidarity.org/201…
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Empirical Software Engineering Using R: neverworkintheory.org/2016/1…
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Jorge Aranda@yorchopolis10 Oct 2016
Replying to @yorchopolis @neilernst @neverworktheory
I’ve written about this problem: catenary.wordpress.com/2009/… and tangentially: catenary.wordpress.com/2011/…
Experimentation and argumentation

Experimentation and argumentation

Just a reflection spawned from a recent post by Greg Wilson and a later discussion at the lab (I had to leave early, so I don’t know how it ended): In a research discipline with few or no mat…

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that’s @gvwilson ’s hunch as well
Yet another study of test-driven development finds that it has no measurable effect: neverworkintheory.org/2016/1…
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FIDEX: Filtering Spreadsheet Data using Examples neverworkintheory.org/2016/1…
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Never Work in Theory@neverworktheory2 Oct 2016
Revisiting the Anatomy and Physiology of the Grid: neverworkintheory.org/2016/1… painstaking, insightful, and valuable work
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Revisiting the Anatomy and Physiology of the Grid: neverworkintheory.org/2016/1… painstaking, insightful, and valuable work
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Apex: Automatic Programming Assignment Error Explanation neverworkintheory.org/2016/1… excellent example of how engineering ought to be done
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Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git: neverworkintheory.org/2016/0…
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Paradise Unplugged: neverworkintheory.org/2016/0…
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Five excellent CS Education research papers from this year's ICER conference neverworkintheory.org/2016/0…
ACM Permits Authors to Post Open Access Copies of Their Own Work: neverworkintheory.org/2016/0… please share with colleagues
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You Keep Using That Word: neverworkintheory.org/2016/0…
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Multi-Site Joint Replication of a Design Patterns Experiment Using Moderator Variables to Generalize Across Contexts neverworkintheory.org/2016/0…
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The Role of Ethnographic Studies in Empirical Software Engineering: neverworkintheory.org/2016/0…
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