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 […]
Column Bits & Chips
This months’s Bits & Chips (a Dutch magazine on trends in electronics) features on piece on my research. Click the screen shot to go to the article (Dutch).
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 […]
