Polished human cognitive characteristics chapter
It has been just over two years since I release the first draft of the Human cognitive characteristics chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book. As new material was discovered, it got...
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Regression line fitted to noisy data? Ask to see confidence intervals
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. For instance, knowing how to fit a regression line to a set of points, but not knowing how to figure out whether the fitted line makes any sense. Fitting a...
View ArticleAltruistic innovation and the study of software economics
Recently, I have been reading rather a lot of papers that are ostensibly about the economics of markets where applications, licensed under an open source license, are readily available. I say...
View ArticleDescribing software engineering in terms of a traditional science
If you were asked to describe the ‘building stuff’ side of software engineering, by comparing it with one of the traditional sciences, which science would you choose? I think a lot of people would want...
View ArticleUsing Black-Scholes in software engineering gives a rough lower bound
In the financial world, a call option is a contract that gives the buyer the option (but not the obligation) to purchase an asset, at an agreed price, on an agreed date (from the other party to the...
View ArticleThe 2019 Huawei cyber security evaluation report
The UK’s Huawei cyber security evaluation centre oversight board has released it’s 2019 annual report. The header and footer of every page contains the text “SECRET”“OFFICIAL”, which I assume is its UK...
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