Nicholas Nelson

TDDViz: Using Software Changes to Understand Conformance to Test Driven Development

2016 · Lecture notes in business information processing

A bad software development process leads to wasted effort and inferior products. In order to improve a software process, it must be first understood. Our unique approach in this paper uses code and test changes …

A tale from the trenches

2020

Cognitive biases are hard-wired behaviors that influence developer actions and can set them on an incorrect course of action, necessitating backtracking. While researchers have found that cognitive biases occur in development tasks in controlled lab …