Update: This paper will be presented at FSE 2014! Some spreadsheets can be improved While looking at spreadsheet and how they are used, over the past years I have noticed that many users don’t make their spreadsheets as easy as they could be. For instance, they use A1+A2+A3+A4+A5 instead of the simpler SUM(A1:A5) Sometimes because […]
Excel Turing Machine
This weekend, I went on a get away with some fellow developers of Devnology. We do this every year, drinking beer, talking about programming, and often also, programming. This year I had even more fun than usual, as Daan van Berkel proposed we build a Turing machine in Excel. In this blog post I’ll talk […]
New Paper: Improving spreadsheet test practices
My first solo paper (without my PhD supervisor) ‘Improving spreadsheet test practices’ will be published at CASCON ’13 in Toronto. This paper explores the idea of applying testing to spreadsheets. Core idea The core observation I did for this paper is the fact that spreadsheet users do exhibit some basic testing. Many spreadsheet creator use formulas […]
Bogdan Dit – How to Effectively Use Topic Models for Software Engineering Tasks? An Approach Based on Genetic Algorithms
Over the past few years, many techniques have been proposed to gather topics from documents, among which Latent Dirichlet Allocation. These authors propose to use LDA for traceability link recovery, feature location, and software artifact labeling. However, the standard version of LDA does not work so well on source code. Luckily, there is good news, as source […]
Newspaper: Twitter at the TU Delft
Yesterday, TU Delft university newspaper Delta ran a story on how scientists are using Twitter. In the story my defense was featured, as @grammarware tweeted all questions and answers. Click the screenshot for the story or download the pdf.
