Author: Dirk Riehle

  • Call for Papers: 1st Workshop on Innovative Software Engineering Education (ISEE 2018)

    http://www1.in.tum.de/isee2018 In conjunction with the Software Engineering Conference 2018 in Ulm, March 6, 2018 Motivation The number of students continuously increases and presents ever greater challenges for instructors in software engineering. In courses with a huge number of students, it is particularly difficult to motivate students to actively participate. At the same time, practice-oriented and…

  • Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Continuous Software Engineering (CSE 2018)

    http://cse2018.swc-rwth.de/ In conjunction with Software Engineering 2018 Ulm, March 6, 2018 Scope of the workshop In order to develop and deliver high-quality products to their customers, software companies have to adopt state-of-the-art software development processes. To face this challenge, companies are applying innovative methods, approaches and techniques like agile methods, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, test automation,…

  • High-tech and the Rights to Your Body

    A friend’s post alerted me to the potential overreach of copyright and commercial law when it comes to the human body. The particular post was about tattoo artists who tried to make money of sport professionals who had integrated the tattoos into their professional persona: The company who had bought the tattoo artists’ designs claims…

  • License Clearance in Software Product Governance [Book Chapter]

    I recently participated in an NII Shonan workshop on open source ecosystems. As a follow-up, we are preparing a book of articles. I’m contributing a chapter on “license clearance in software product governance”. Obviously, open source plays an important role. Please find abstract and paper below. Abstract: Almost all software products today include open source…

  • Favorite (own) Open Source Research Publications

    This is a list of my (own) favorite open source research publications. Check them out! 2015 The five stages of open source volunteering The open source software developer career and its benefits

  • Tech Troubles of @Seagate Backup Plus Slim

    About two years back, I bought a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2 TB external 2.5 inch harddrive. I love it! So much so, that I tried buying a second one a couple of months ago. From the get go, that second copy behaved weirdly, The disk was slow and seemed to operate in intermittent sprints…