Our paper with Ayse Bener, Pasi Kuvaja and Markku Oivo, “A Quantitative Comparison of Test-first and Test-last Code in an Industrial Project” has been accepted at XP2010 that will be held in Trondheim from the 1st to the 4th of June 2010. I believe the title of the paper clearly indicates what it is all about 
(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 not only limited, but also contradictory. Therefore, this talk will focus on what we do not know about TDD and possible research directions to reveal the mysteries that lies beneath.”
About a month ago, I have joined the Department of Information Processing Science at the University of Oulu in Finland, as a researcher (though I will participate in teaching activities as well). It feels good to be back in the university! After spending significant number of days for new-comer’s-bureaucracy-to-a-new-country, I am getting ready for the upcoming days of “please fund my research” activities, actual research and paper writing. Oulu seems to be a very peaceful city and just the perfect environment for productive research. I also decided to learn Finnish, so why not start with learning the bus routes!
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 modeling as well as the final outcomes we achieved. This research was carried out in collaboration with the leading wireless operator in Turkey. You may reach the paper from this link.