“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 […]
Quote on science, but applicable to testing
“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.” – Hugh Walpole
Podcast: Spreadsheet engineering and software developers
I was interviewed by the guys from F1F9 about my research. In this podcast, Felienne Hermans, PhD student at Delft University of Technology and CEO of Infotron, discusses the parallels between spreadsheet engineering and software development. She introduces us to the concept of “spreadsheet smells”, talks about how she discovered the FAST standard, and comments […]
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 […]
