“In applied sciences like software engineering, PhD students should not work at the university full time.” This proposition relates somewhat to Proposition #5. I think it is very important for researchers in software engineering to connect with practice. Doing industrial case studies is one option, but I want to go even further, I think young researchers […]
Proposition #6
“An efficient legal system should focus on reintegration and reconciliation, instead of on penance and redress.” Recently, in the Netherlands, the role of revenge in the legal system was covered in the news, as our Minister of Justice stated that being killed is a risk of being a thief [1] and some people argued that with […]
Proposition #7
“Initiatives to attract women to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) should focus on teachers and parents instead of on women.” Recently, I was talking to high school girls about my profession, for the Dutch Spiegelbeeld program, a database with female role models who work in technology and they told me that often their parents actively […]
Proposition #5
“For user studies in software engineering holds: it is better to have one user in the field, than ten in the lab.” Runkel & McGrath have proposed a four-quadrant taxonomy of empirical methods with two axes, obtrusive vs. unobtrusive and abstract vs. concrete. They further add three different criteria we might have for our methods, generalizability, precision, and realism. [1] Many artifacts in software engineering are validated with […]
My dissertation
For those interested, my dissertation is available on FigShare! Questions or remarks? Feel free to post below. If you don’t feel like digging through hundreds of pages of spreadsheet goodness, the following slide deck presents a quick overview. An overview of my PhD research from Felienne Hermans I printed by thesis with Proefschriftmaken.nl and I […]
