by jordicabot | Sep 11, 2017 | Research Rants, funding
After the UML serenity prayer, the second most important prayer in my life is the following Academic Research Serenity Prayer by Micah Allen God grant me the serenity to accept that I will not get this grant, the courage to write it anyway, & the wisdom to know...
by jordicabot | Mar 21, 2017 | publishing, evaluating research, Research Rants
I have the feeling that more and more people cite workshop papers to sustain their claims. As if workshop papers were peer-reviewed. They are not. At most, they are “peer-filtered” (meaning that the PC of the workshop checked the work to make sure authors...
by jordicabot | Jan 8, 2017 | customers, philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
The notion of code coverage is well known in software testing. In short, it computes how well the test suite you are using to test the quality of the code covers all parts (statements/conditions/…) of that code. Obviously, the higher your code coverage the lower...
by jordicabot | Nov 16, 2016 | Uncategorized, Research Rants
This article (presented at the ER2016 conference) proposes a conceptual schema providing a holistic view of conference-related information (e.g., authors, papers, committees and topics). This schema is automatically and incrementally populated with data available...
by jordicabot | Oct 10, 2016 | Research Rants
This is a never-ending discussion in our community. As a member of this community, I’ve tried to do a small contribution to this discussion by analzying co-authorship graphs of software engineering conferences. Results have been published in the paper: Analysis...