- Walter Tichy explained several important aspects, which I need to take into account while designing my next empirical study.
- In addition, Natalia Juristo pointed out several things I will keep in mind during this design in order to make sure others can repeat it.
- Tim Menzies gave a very good introduction into the ins and outs of data-mining (in such a way I actually want to try it out)
- Bertrand Meyer (and his students) made me aware of some testing techniques I forgot about.
- The presentation of Joshua Bloch was, for me, less relevant from a PhD point-of-view, but his thoughts about good API design are extremely interesting from a developers point of view.
- It was really fun (and interesting) to hear Barry Boehm explain his research on estimation models and how empirical SE can be integrated into education.
- Last but not least, the presentations of Victor Basili contained a lot of stuff which I believe is relevant for what we are doing at SIG.
Attending LASER 2010
Today I managed to go through my notes of the 2010 edition of the LASER summerschool series. While doing this I realized that, apart from the fancy hotel, the good food, the nice people and the great weather, the trip also had a high educational value!
A magazine article
This week I received some hard-copies of the July/August issue of the IEEE Software magazine. This issue contains an article called
A Lightweight Sanity Check for Implemented Architectures
which is written by Arie van Deursen and yours truly.
The article looks really great, it has multiple colours, pull-quotes, a side-bar and pictures! And although good looks are sometimes deceiving, this article also contains some pretty interesting content (if I do say so myself).
As expected, it describes a check-list which can be used to get a quick overview of the state of the implemented architecture of a system. Such an overview helps in determining which parts of the architecture can be improved, or confirms that everything is in good shape. I believe that both outcomes are interesting, so I recommend everybody to give LiSCIA a try!
A Lightweight Sanity Check for Implemented Architectures
which is written by Arie van Deursen and yours truly.
The article looks really great, it has multiple colours, pull-quotes, a side-bar and pictures! And although good looks are sometimes deceiving, this article also contains some pretty interesting content (if I do say so myself).
As expected, it describes a check-list which can be used to get a quick overview of the state of the implemented architecture of a system. Such an overview helps in determining which parts of the architecture can be improved, or confirms that everything is in good shape. I believe that both outcomes are interesting, so I recommend everybody to give LiSCIA a try!