Practitioners' Digest

A collection of articles from the IEEE Software's 'Practitioners' Digest' column, edited by Jeffrey C. Carver. Practitioner’s Digest aims to bring practitioners into contact with research that might be of interest. Drawing on a team of correspondents, the column highlights industry-relevant research results from software-engineering conferences.

This collections includes 25 articles published between 2015 and 2020.

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2020 (4)

2020
Blockchain and Smart Contract Engineering
IEEE Software 2020 (5); by J. C. Carver, M. Staron

Because smart contracts are often small programs, tools to prevent attacks are often based on analyzing the smart contract code to identify vulnerabilities a…

2020
Conference Highlights: JIT Fault Prevention, Motivated Modeling, Security in Requirements, and Improving Team Performance
IEEE Software 2020 (4); by J. C. Carver, B. Penzenstadler, L. L. Minku, R. Colomo-Palacios, X. Larrucea

This issue's practitioners' Digest reports on papers from the 2018 International Conference on Mining Sof tware Repositories, the 2019 International…

2020
Requirements Engineering Research: News From the Trenches
IEEE Software 2020 (2); by J. C. Carver, B. Penzenstadler

Presents information on the 2019 International Conference on Requirements Engineering.

2020
Trends in Agile: Business Agility
IEEE Software 2020 (1); by R. Prikladnicki, C. Lassenius, J. C. Carver

The agile conference http://www.agilealliance.org/agile2019/ is the largest global symposium on agile software development, catering particularly to…

2019 (4)

2019
Gender in Software Engineering
IEEE Software 2019 (6); by J. C. Carver, A. Serebrenik

The topic of gender in software engineering received significant attention during the most recent International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE.

2019
Highlights from ICSE 2019: Software Security and Mobile App Energy Consumption
IEEE Software 2019 (5); by J. C. Carver, L. L. Minku

This issue's "Practitioners' Digest" department reports on the 2019 International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE.

2019
Measuring Systems and Architectures: A Sustainability Perspective
IEEE Software 2019 (3); by J. Cabot, R. Capilla, C. Carrillo, H. Muccini, B. Penzenstadler

This issue's Practioners' Digest column reports on the 2018 Measurement and Metrics for Green and Sustainable Software Systems Workshop MeGSuS, the ACM/IEEE…

2019
Quality, Nontechnical Skills, Blind Programmers, and Deep Learning
IEEE Software 2019 (2); by J. Carver

Reports from the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, the 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced…

2018 (5)

2018
Gender, Sentiment and Emotions, and Safety-Critical Systems
IEEE Software 2018 (6); by J. Carver, R. Capilla, B. Penzenstadler, A. Serebrenik, A. Valdezate

This issues article reports from the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE 18 and the 17th International Conference on Software Reuse…

2018
Industry–Academia Collaboration in Software Engineering
IEEE Software 2018 (5); by J. C. Carver, R. Prikladnicki

This article aims to encourage more industry-academia collaborations by highlighting examples of successful collaborations.

2018
Empirical Software Engineering, Predictive Models, and Product Lines
IEEE Software 2018 (3); by J. C. Carver, E. Santana de Almeida, R. Capilla, L. Minku, M. Torchiano, A. Valdezate

This issues column reports on presentations at the 11th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 13th International…

2018
Software Maintenance and Evolution and Automated Software Engineering
IEEE Software 2018 (2); by J. C. Carver, A. Serebrenik

This issues column reports on the 33rd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution and 32nd International Conference on Automated Software…

2018
Trends in Agile Updated: Perspectives from the Practitioners
IEEE Software 2018 (1); by R. Prikladnicki, C. Lassenius, J. C. Carver

The Agile Conference is the largest global conference on agile software development, catering particularly to practitioners.

2017 (6)

2017
ICSE Highlights
IEEE Software 2017 (6); by J. C. Carver, A. Serebrenik

This issues column reports on papers from the 2017 International Conference on Software Engineering.

2017
The Human Factor
IEEE Software 2017 (5); by J. C. Carver, B. Penzenstadler, A. Serebrenik, A. Yamashita

This installment reports on five papers from the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering and its collocated events.

2017
Developments in Requirements Engineering
IEEE Software 2017 (4); by J. C. Carver

This issue's column reports on papers from the 23rd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality.

2017
Distributed Teams, Developer Participation, and More
IEEE Software 2017 (3); by J. C. Carver, H. Muccini, A. Yamashita

This instalment reports on two talks from the First International Workshop on Collaborative Modeling in MDE model-driven engineering and three papers from…

2017
GitHub, Technical Debt, Code Formatting, and More
IEEE Software 2017 (2); by J. C. Carver, J. Cabot, R. Capilla, H. Muccini

This issue's column reports on papers from the 19th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN…

2017
Requirements, Human Values, and the Development Technology Landscape
IEEE Software 2017 (1); by J. C. Carver, L. L. Minku, B. Penzenstadler

This issue's column reports on papers from the 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference, 38th International Conference on Software Engineering,…

2016 (4)

2016
Trends in Agile: Perspectives from the Practitioners
IEEE Software 2016 (6); by R. Prikladnicki, C. Lassenius, E. Tian, J. C. Carver

The Agile Conference is the largest global conference on agile software development, catering particularly to practitioners.

2016
Probing Questions, Participatory Democracy, Quality Assurance, and Customer Data
IEEE Software 2016 (5); by J. C. Carver, M. Paasivaara, B. Penzenstadler

This month's column reports on papers from the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering and the 17th International Conference on Agile Software…

2016
Product Lines, Energy Conservation, Use Cases, Agile Development, and Infotainment
IEEE Software 2016 (3); by J. C. Carver, E. S. de Almeida, R. Capilla, L. L. Minku, H. Muccini, B. Penzenstadler

This issue's column reports on the articles discussing different topics.

2016
Regression Testing, Spoken Language, Crash-Inducing Commits, UML, and Legal Policy
IEEE Software 2016 (2); by J. C. Carver, J. Cabot, L. L. Minku, M. Torchiano

This month's column reports on papers from the 2015 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, the 11th International…

2015 (2)

2015
Software Quality, Energy Awareness, and More
IEEE Software 2015 (6); by J. C. Carver, A. Yamashita, L. Minku, M. Habayeb, S. A. Kocak

This article discusses six papers presented at events connected with the 2015 International Conference on Software Engineering.

2015
Collaborations and Code Reviews
IEEE Software 2015 (5); by J. C. Carver, B. Caglayan, M. Habayeb, B. Penzenstadler, A. Yamashita

This article discusses five papers presented at events connected with the 2015 International Conference on Software Engineering.