Events

Call For Papers: SEAA’11 Special Session EsPreSSE

8 Mar 2011

There is still one week to submit for: SEAA’11-Session EsPreSSE: Estimation and Prediction in Software & Systems Engineering, August 30 – September 2, 2011 @Oulu, Finland , Submission Deadline: March 15, 2011. Estimation and prediction approaches are a valuable foundation for planning activities and for making the right decisions at the right time in software [...]

Call For Papers: EUROMICRO SEAA 2011

8 Mar 2011

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There is still one week to submit for: EUROMICRO SEAA 2011, August 30 – September 2, 2011 @Oulu, Finland , Submission Deadline: March 15, 2011. The 37th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) will bring together people from business, industry, research, and academia who are working in software engineering and information technology. [...]

Call For Papers: PROMISE Student Symposium

3 Feb 2010

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The Student Symposium on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE-SS), September 13, 2010 @Timisoara, Romania , Submission Deadline: May 21, 2010. The main goal of the PROMISE-SS is to provide graduate students with a forum to: present their research and be provided useful feedback from the Symposium’s committee members, and the audience; increase their professional [...]

Call For Papers: PROMISE 2010

2 Nov 2009

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PROMISE 2010, September 12-13, 2010 @Timisoara, Romania , Submission Deadline: May 14, 2010. (Co-located with ICSM’10). The PROMISE conference provides an annual forum for researchers and practitioners to present and exchange ideas, results, and experiences with predictive models that are applicable to implementation, evaluation, and management of software processes and projects. A key objective of [...]

Unresolved Issues in Test-Driven Development

15 Sep 2009

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(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 [...]

Call For Papers: CASCON 2009

18 Apr 2009

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CASCON 2009, November 2-9, 2009 @Richmond Hill, ON , Submission Deadline: June 1, 2009 CASCON 2009 is the 19th Annual International Conference hosted by the IBM Centers for Advanced Studies. This “Meeting of Minds” provides an exciting forum for exchanging ideas and experiences in the ever-expanding and critical fields of software development and computing. The [...]

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PROMISE’11 Panel: The Road Ahead in Predictive Modeling

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 [...]
Best Paper Nomination @SEAA’11

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) [...]
Paper Among Top 5 Most Cited

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. [...]
Best Paper Nomination @LESS’10

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.
How Effective is Test Driven Development?

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, [...]
Unresolved Issues in Test-Driven Development

(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 [...]
Best Paper Award @PROMISE’09

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 [...]