Publications by Derek Jones
Projects chapter of ‘evidence-based software engineering’ reworked
The Projects chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been reworked; draft pdf available here. A lot of developers spend their time working on projects, and there ought to be loads of data available. But, as we all know, few companies measure anything, and fewer hang on to the data. Every now and again I actively contact compan...
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The Renzo Pomodoro dataset
Estimating how long it will take to complete a task is hard work, and the most common motivation for this work comes from external factors, e.g., the boss, or a potential client asks for an estimate to do a job. People also make estimates for their own use, e.g., when planning work for the day. Various processes and techniques have been created ...
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The Renzo Pomodoro dataset
Estimating how long it will take to complete a task is hard work, and the most common motivation for this work comes from external factors, e.g., the boss, or a potential client asks for an estimate to do a job. People also make estimates for their own use, e.g., when planning work for the day. Various processes and techniques have been created ...
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Reliability chapter of ‘evidence-based software engineering’ updated
The Reliability chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been updated (draft pdf). Unlike the earlier chapters, there were no major changes to the initial version from over 18-months ago; we just don’t know much about software reliability, and there is not much public data. There are lots of papers published claiming to be abo...
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Reliability chapter of ‘evidence-based software engineering’ updated
The Reliability chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been updated (draft pdf). Unlike the earlier chapters, there were no major changes to the initial version from over 18-months ago; we just don’t know much about software reliability, and there is not much public data. There are lots of papers published claiming to be abo...
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Source code chapter of ‘evidence-based software engineering’ reworked
The Source code chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been reworked (draft pdf). When writing the first version of this chapter, I was not certain whether source code was a topic warranting a chapter to itself, in an evidence-based software engineering book. Now I am certain. Source code is the primary product delivery, for...
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Source code chapter of ‘evidence-based software engineering’ reworked
The Source code chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been reworked (draft pdf). When writing the first version of this chapter, I was not certain whether source code was a topic warranting a chapter to itself, in an evidence-based software engineering book. Now I am certain. Source code is the primary product delivery, for...
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Comments on the COVID-19 model source code from Imperial
At the end of March a paper modelling the impact of various scenarios on the spread of COVID-19 infections, by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College, appears to have influenced the policy of the powers that be. This group recently started publishing their modelling code on Github (good for them). Most of my pr...
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Comments on the COVID-19 model source code from Imperial
At the end of March a paper modelling the impact of various scenarios on the spread of COVID-19 infections, by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College, appears to have influenced the policy of the powers that be. This group recently started publishing their modelling code on Github (good for them). Most of my pr...
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Beta release of data analysis chapters: Evidence-based software engineering
When I started my evidence-based software engineering book, nobody had written a data analysis book for software developers, so I had to write one (in fact, a book on this topic has still to be written). When I say “I had to write one”, what I mean is that the 200 pages in the second half of my evidence-based software engineering book contai...
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