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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Towards individualized software engineering: empirical studies should collect psychometrics
Even though software is developed by humans, research in software engineering primarily focuses on the technologies, methods and processes they use while disregarding the importan...
Robert Feldt, Richard Torkar, Lefteris Angelis, Ma...
CISIS
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Hybrid Performance Modeling and Prediction of Large-Scale Computing Systems
Abstract—Performance is a key feature of large-scale computing systems. However, the achieved performance when a certain program is executed is significantly lower than the maxi...
Sabri Pllana, Siegfried Benkner, Fatos Xhafa, Leon...
ACE
2004
222views Education» more  ACE 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Learning about Software Development - Should Programming Always Come First?
The issues surrounding curriculum design of many Computer Science and Software Engineering degree programs1 are many and complex. In particular, the question of whether prior prog...
Margaret Hamilton, Liz Haywood
FM
2008
Springer
135views Formal Methods» more  FM 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Secret Ninja Formal Methods
The use of formal methods can significantly improve software quality. However, many instructors and students consider formal methods to be too difficult, impractical, and esoteric ...
Joseph R. Kiniry, Daniel M. Zimmerman
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
158views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
The benefits of pairing by ability
An analysis of data from 259 CS1 students is performed to compare the performance of students who were paired by demonstrated ability to that of students who were paired randomly ...
Grant Braught, John MacCormick, Tim Wahls