And That's a Wrap

Reviewed by Greg Wilson / 2023-04-26
Keywords: Lightning Talks

We just wrapped up our third set of lightning talks—many thanks to the presenters and to everyone who participated and asked questions. We raised over $4000 for Books for Africa, and we will post slides and recordings (including transcripts in English and Spanish) in the coming weeks.

Session 1

Rashina Hoda:
You asked for it: making sense of user feedback.
Prem Devanbu:
Leveraging the bimodality of software.
Raula Kula:
What do we know about libraries and their dependencies?
Sherlock Licorish:
Can genetic improvement enhance online code snippets?
Alexander Serebrenik:
Getting old: employability and experiences of veteran software developers.
Elvan Kula:
Understanding and predicting delays in large-scale software development.
Marcel Böhme:
On the surprising efficiency and exponential cost of fuzzing.
Ethel Tshukudu:
Understanding conceptual transfer in students learning new programming languages.
Gustavo Pinto:
Cognitive-driven development helps software teams to keep code units under the limit.
Kai Presler-Marshall:
Teaching collaborative skills to undergraduate software engineering students.

Session 2

Andreas Zeller:
How to create the nastiest test inputs ever.
John Businge:
Patched clones and missed patches among the variants of a software family.
Preetha Chatterjee:
Emotion awareness in software engineering.
Christian Newman:
Crafting strong identifier naming practices.
Gina Bai:
How novice testers perceive and perform unit testing.
Thomas LaToza:
Programming strategically.
Lauren Margulieux:
Things software developers should learn about learning.
Shurui Zhou:
Understanding the sustainability challenges for building open-source scientific software.
Ariana Mirian:
The theory and practice of enterprise vulnerability remediation.
Allison Sullivan:
Proofreading the proofreader: the benefits of unit tests for software models.
Zadia Codabux:
Technical debt in R packages.
Carol Lee:
Developer thriving: why developers deserve more than satisfaction.