A core principle of Agile development is to satisfy the customer by providing valuable software on an early and continuous basis. For a software application to be valuable it shou...
Software developers are rooted in the written form of their code, yet they often draw diagrams representing their code. Unfortunately, we still know little about how and why they ...
Mauro Cherubini, Gina Venolia, Robert DeLine, Andr...
In the foreseeable future, software testing will remain one of the best tools we have at our disposal to ensure software dependability. Empirical studies are crucial to software t...
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A three-year study collected information bearing on the question of whether studying mathematics improves programming skills. An analysis of the data revealed significant differen...