Automatically assessing code understandability: How far are we?
Forget LOC and cyclomatic complexity; can we just calculate the understandability of code directly?
The Toilet Paper
Software development waste
Many different types of waste can occur in software development. Here are nine of them.
Belief & evidence in empirical software engineering
Do we actually follow best practices or just… practices?
How not to structure your database-backed web applications
ORM frameworks make your life a lot easier, but can just as easily lead to performance problems.
Do you remember this source code?
I’ll tell you what, I don’t even remember writing this article.
Enhancing person-job fit for talent recruitment: An ability-aware neural network approach
Use machine learning to select the best candidate for your organisation.
An industrial evaluation of unit test generation: Finding real faults in a financial application
Why write tests if you can let a computer write them for you?
Online job search: Study of users’ search behavior using search engine query logs
How people use search engines to find their new job.
We don’t need another hero? The impact of “heroes” in software development
Let’s talk about those 10x developers from a project perspective.
Rethinking thinking aloud: A comparison of three think-aloud protocols
There are different ways to do think-aloud. Some are better than others.
When not to comment: Questions and tradeoffs with API documentation for C++ projects
You want comments in your code, but probably not too many.
Characteristics of useful code reviews: An empirical study at Microsoft
Some tips that can help you streamline your code review pipeline.
The impact of code review coverage and code review participation on software quality
You know about code coverage for tests, but code review coverage is just as important.