Category: 3.1 Research (General)

The other day I ran into one of the oldest software engineering tropes in the book: That software engineering should be more like work in a factory, and that developers are best equated to assembly line workers who put together a software product by assembling components to a specification. I wasn’t sure whether I should…

The ACM Hypertext 2019 conference will take place in Hof, Germany, on September 17-20, 2019. Here is the conference’s scope in its own words: The ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social…

Please be reminded about the January 11th, 2019, paper submission deadline for the second workshop on innovative software engineering at the German software engineering conference (SE 2019) in Stuttgart. It is a great place to meet like-minded researchers and practitioners of software engineering and its education in Germany.

I got asked the other day why there are only two research groups working on inner source world-wide. Inner source is the use of open source best practices within companies, and it is a hot topic with many companies who want to go beyond agile. There was varied research around the world in the past…

The OpenSym 2018 call for papers is out! Submission deadline for your open collaboration research papers is March 15th, 2018, AoE. OpenSym 2018 will take place in beautiful Paris, France. Don’t miss it!

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…