The Loyal Opposition

In his final Loyal Opposition column for IEEE Software, Robert Glass points out the continued need for testing academic theories in practice and for…

Software standards. Now there's a subject that brooks no "loyal opposition," right Standards are material provided by some…

The issue of research rigor versus relevance has been bandied about in the halls of computing for several decades now.

This article looks at what happens when you combine the four goal-driven approaches to testing classification requirements-driven,…

Lying is an understudied activity, especially in the software field.

Work on test case classification published 16 years ago is still valid for software engineers.

Three anecdotes show how one member of a work team can decrease the whole team's productivity.

The software development process and the resulting product are so complex that no error-detecting approach will ever be able to produce…

People might love to support underdogs, but they also love to kick them when they're down.

English's ambiguities and variations make it difficult to support as a universal language.

Intuition might be a better decision-making approach for software engineering than you suppose.

Do blogs and wikis help or hinder the communication of software engineering knowledge

The article examines 'software fun' from the viewpoint of the role of methodologies in software history.

There is or should be more fun in software engineering than you might think.

Software development currently seems to take a "Roman" approach; that is, it focuses on the contributions of a group of programmers at an organization.

There's a subtle way to lose your integrity: trying to do a task as someone else would have you do it, rather than as you believe it should be done.

The field of software engineering would greatly benefit from detailed research on why some software builders perform better than others, but this isn't…

An enormous intellectual distance exists between the fields of computer science and information systems, which needs to be fixed soon.

What's the state of the practice of software engineering If you look at current software engineering books, journals, and conferences, you…

The past few years have seen an enormous increase in the proliferation of viruses. Why is this happening, and what, if anything, can be done about it

Different software application domains require different programming techniques.

The author considers software maintenance, which is a vitally important and, more to the point, a totally misunderstood topic.

The article is concerned with the state of the practice of software engineering.

One of the strangest stories in the software world centers around the programming language Cobol.

The author discusses the hype surrounding the Linux operating system and open-source software development.

Dekleva's 1992 study confirms that if you build a system well, it will be maintained more than if you don't.

This is the decade of software quality. In the 1980s we focused on trying to increase productivity; in the 1990s we strive to create higher…

Something is seriously wrong with reuse.