#neverworkintheory — Public Fediverse posts

"A real-world investigation showed that many reported malicious packages persist in PyPI mirror servers globally, with over 72% remaining for an extended period after being discovered." https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11021 #neverworkintheory

Study finds that startups accumulate most of their technical debt in testing, despite attempts to automate it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12434 #neverworkintheory

Thanks to @yabellini, Spanish transcripts of all the April 2023 #NeverWorkInTheory talks are now available at https://neverworkintheory.org/ - gracias!

A new paper from Janes et al provides an overview of 30 open software tracing tools https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06875 What makes it more interesting is their principled use of ChatGPT to assist with the literature review. #NeverWorkInTheory

I just watched this fantastic talk by @amirian from #neverworkintheory and thank you so much for bringing the experience of the operators to this. And for fantastic research in this domain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceuNc5cy1UA

I wonder, when we look at vulnerability and patches across the board, like Log4Shell, we see that around 60 to 80% of patches applied "timely" with a long tail forever seem to repeat. Do we have research on what makes this happen?

https://www.sonatype.com/resources/log4j-vulnerability-resource-center#dashboard

Friends, I gave talk about my lab's research (headed by the ever brilliant @grimalkina ) on #DeveloperThriving at #NeverWorkInTheory and I'm super excited to share that the recording is now live. Some key takeaways: 1) #Developers deserve more than satisfaction; developers deserve to THRIVE. 2) We can measure thriving. 3) It predicts #productivity 4) I hand knit the top I'm wearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfTqazvejI

@seresearchers #SoftwareEngineering #knitting

Video: Prof. Shurui Zhou on the sustainability of open source software development https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/zhou-shurui.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Andreas Zeller on creating really nasty test inputs https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/zeller-andreas.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Ethel Tshukudu on conceptual transfer in students learning new programming languages https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/tshukudu-ethel.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Allison Sullivan on the benefits of unit tests for formal software models https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/sullivan-allison.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Alexander Serebrenik on employability and experience of older software developers https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/serebrenik-alexander.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Kai Presler-Marshall on teaching collaborative skills to undergrads https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/presler-marshall-kai.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Dr. Gustavo Pinto on cognitive-driven development https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/pinto-gustavo.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Christian Newman on crafting software identifier naming practices https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/newman-christian.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Dr. Ariana Mirian on enterprise vulnerability remediation https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/mirian-ariana.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Lauren Margulieux on things software developers should know about learning https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/margulieux-lauren.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Sherlock Licorish on using genetic algorithms to enhance code snippets https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/licorish-sherlock.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Dr. Carol Lee on developer thriving https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/lee-carol.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Thomas LaToza on programming strategically https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/latoza-thomas.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Raula Kula on what we know about libraries and their dependencies https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/kula-raula.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Elvan Kula on understanding and predicting delays in software development https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/kula-elvan.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Rashina Hoda on making sense of user feedback https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/hoda-rashina.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Prem Devanbu on leveraging the bimodality of software https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/devanbu-prem.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Zadia Codabux on technical debt in R packages https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/codabux-zadia.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Preetha Chatterjee on emotional awareness in software engineering https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/chatterjee-preetha.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. John Businge on patches and clones in software families https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/businge-john.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Dr. Marcel Böhme on the surprising efficiency and exponential cost of fuzzing https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/bohme-marcel.html #NeverWorkInTheory

Video: Prof. Gina Bai on how novices perceive and perform testing https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/06/13/bai-gina.html #NeverWorkInTheory

How to create the nastiest test inputs ever: My ten-minute #NeverWorkInTheory talk on automated software testing is now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCy8bYJ_G0I

It's 2023, and open-access preprints are still available for less than half of the papers being presented at the world's largest software engineering research conference (https://conf.researchr.org/program/icse-2023/program-icse-2023/). Putting it another way, more than half of the people presenting at the conference don't care if practitioners like me know what they're doing. #NeverWorkInTheory