Recently, I was in Austin, Texas to attend ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering) and MSR (Mining Software Repositories) conferences. The authors presented excellent papers on a variety of topics concerning software engineering. Despite their excellent technical content, I was discontented by the presentation skills exhibited by some of the …
When I decided to resign from Siemens Research (Bangalore) after working there for more than seven years and move to Athens (Greece) in the second half of 2015, many of my friends expressed surprise. They were wondering why I am leaving a well-settled career and moreover, why I am moving …
You may have to report your daily (or weekly, monthly) progress to your supervisor. It is a good practice in multiple ways: you know what you did in a day and thus, keep track of your progress related to your work, you create a task completion history which you can …
Writing high-quality code is not at all trivial and there is no shortcut to “add” quality in source-code. Quality is like spices in food; you need to add them at the right moment. You can’t just throw the spices in the vessel once the food is (almost) cooked and …
If code-quality is one of your concerns, you must be aware of code smells and design smells. Similarly, code written in configuration management systems such as Puppet and Chef is also prone to such maintainability smells.
Recently, we (myself, Prof. Diomidis Spinellis, and Marios Fragkoulis) have worked on configuration smells …
Conversations such as “Oh, this is such a cluttered design”, “This software has high technical debt”, and “What a complex code, uff” may lead to exchanges such as “Can’t we do something about this?”, “Why can’t we scrap this?”, and “Can refactoring make it better?” Essentially, the discussion …
Yoga is an ancient practice originated in India. It brings health and well-being to the human body.
We can metaphorically compare Yoga with Refactoring. Yoga is to body as Refactoring is to software. As Yoga brings health and well-being to human body, Refactoring improves the health of a software system …
This is an inspirational and thought-provoking lecture by Richard Hamming. I would strongly recommend it to anybody who is researching as a professional or as a student.
Some of the gems from the talk are as follows.
Machine Learning for Source Code Analysis (ML4SCA)