How Effective is Test Driven Development?

I’ll be one of the panel speakers for the “The Road Ahead in Predictive Modeling” panel in the 7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE’11) with Hakan Erdogmus, Mika Mantyla, Barbara Russo and Guenther Ruhe. We will discuss the maturity of predictive models (generalization/ locality, policy making etc), repeatability, data analysis (the [...]

Our paper with Ayse Tosun and Ayse Bener, “Empirical Evaluation of Mixed-Project Defect Prediction Models”, has been nominated for the best research paper award by the Program Committee of the 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (EUROMICRO-SEAA 2011). This defect prediction paper stands somewhere between the within-company (traditional) and cross-company (my obsession) [...]

I received news that our 2009 paper is one of the top 5 most cited papers in the Empirical Software Engineering journal for the period 2009-2010 (citation counts excludes self-citation). In case that interests you, here is the link and reference for you to read and cite(!): B. Turhan, T. Menzies, A. Bener and J. [...]

Our paper with Vladimir Mandic, Markku Oivo, Pilar Rodriguez, Pasi Kuvaja and Harri Kaikkonen “What is Flowing in Lean Software Development?”, has been nominated for the best paper award by the Program Committee of the 1st International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems (LESS 2010). You may reach the paper through this link.

I’ve been working with Lucas Layman, Madeline Diep, Forrest Shull and Hakan Erdogmus to collect and analyze the quantitative evidence from literature regarding the effects of TDD on programmer productivity, internal/external product quality and test support. Our results will soon be available as a chapter in the upcoming O’Reilly book “Making Software: What Really Works, [...]

(and why should you care?) I will give a talk with the above title at Scan-Agile’09. Here, you can glimpse what it is (not) about. If you feel that you know -anything at all- about TDD, please share by leaving a comment: “Despite the popularity of TDD, our knowledge regarding its effects in practice is [...]

Our paper with Ayse Tosun and Ayse Bener, “Practical Considerations of Deploying AI in Defect Prediction: A Case Study within the Turkish Telecommunication Industry”, received the best paper award from Predictor Models in Software Engineering Conference (2009). The paper describes our experiences throughout the processes of implementing a measurement program, bug tracing and defect prediction [...]