It Will Never Work in Theory

Videos from our April 2023 lightning talks are now available—many thanks to the presenters and to everyone who participated and asked questions for helping us to raise over $4000 for Books for Africa.

Online (April 2023)

	Gina Bai: How novice testers perceive and perform unit testing. Transcript: English		Marcel Böhme: On the surprising efficiency and exponential cost of fuzzing. Transcript: English
	John Businge: Patched clones and missed patches among the variants of a software family. Transcript: English		Preetha Chatterjee: Emotion awareness in software engineering. Transcript: English
	Zadia Codabux: Technical debt in R packages. Transcript: English		Prem Devanbu: Leveraging the bimodality of software. Transcript: English
	Rashina Hoda: You asked for it: making sense of user feedback. Transcript: English		Elvan Kula: Understanding and predicting delays in large-scale software development. Transcript: English
	Raula Kula: What do we know about libraries and their dependencies? Transcript: English		Thomas LaToza: Programming strategically. Transcript: English
	Carol Lee: Developer thriving: why developers deserve more than satisfaction. Transcript: English		Sherlock Licorish: Can genetic improvement enhance online code snippets? Transcript: English
	Lauren Margulieux: Things software developers should learn about learning. Transcript: English		Ariana Mirian: The theory and practice of enterprise vulnerability remediation. Transcript: English
	Christian Newman: Crafting strong identifier naming practices. Transcript: English		Gustavo Pinto: Cognitive-driven development helps software teams to keep code units under the limit. Transcript: English
	Kai Presler-Marshall: Teaching collaborative skills to undergraduate software engineering students. Transcript: English		Alexander Serebrenik: Getting old: employability and experiences of veteran software developers. Transcript: English
	Allison Sullivan: Proofreading the proofreader: the benefits of unit tests for software models. Transcript: English		Ethel Tshukudu: Understanding conceptual transfer in students learning new programming languages. Transcript: English
	Andreas Zeller: How to create the nastiest test inputs ever. Transcript: English		Shurui Zhou: Understanding the sustainability challenges for building open-source scientific software. Transcript: English

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Strange Loop (September 2022)

	Chris Brown: How to recommend tools for finding and fixing software errors. Transcript: English Español		Joanna da Silva Santos: Choose wisely: code smells in automatically generated code. Transcript: English Español
	Catherine Hicks: It's like coding in the dark: the need for learning culture within engineering teams. Transcript: English Español		Foutse Khomh: Finding bugs in deep learning programs. Transcript: English Español
	Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer: One thousand and one stories: a large-scale survey of software refactoring. Transcript: English Español		Sarah Nadi: It's not you, it's the API: automatically avoiding API misuses. Transcript: English Español
	Justin Smith: How automated tools can communicate effective strategies for fixing bugs. Transcript: English Español		Tianyi Zhang: Interactive debugging and testing support for deep learning. Transcript: English Español

Online (April 2022)

	Maurício Aniche: How code coverage can be used and abused to guide testing. Transcript: English Español		Alberto Bacchelli: How code review works (and doesn't) in the real world. Transcript: English Español
	Sebastian Baltes: Challenges and opportunities for software engineering in Papua New Guinea. Transcript: English Español		Kelly Blincoe: The effects of destructive criticism in code review. Transcript: English Español
	Neil Brown: How your minds learn to program. Transcript: English Español		Denae Ford Robinson: Online community and safety in software engineering. Transcript: English Español
	Davide Fucci: The hidden costs and benefits of TDD. Transcript: English Español		Matthias Galster: Value and waste in software engineering. Transcript: English Español
	Felienne Hermans: How patterns in variable names can make code easier to read. Transcript: English Español		Catherine Hicks: Fostering a learning culture in coding teams. Transcript: English Español
	Brittany Johnson-Matthews: Causal testing: understanding the root causes of defects. Transcript: English Español		Shane McIntosh: The unintended consequences of mining software build systems. Transcript: English Español
	Mei Nagappan: Bias in evaluating code contributions. Transcript: English Español		Marian Petre: How expert programmers think about errors. Transcript: English Español
	Manuel Rigger: How to test software without writing tests. Transcript: English Español		Paige Rodeghero: What we've learned about remote onboarding during the pandemic. Transcript: English Español
	Igor Steinmacher: Negotiation and padding in software project estimates. Transcript: English Español		Kathryn Stolee: To search or not to search: it depends on the question. Transcript: English Español
	Margaret-Anne Storey: What does 'productivity' actually mean for developers? Transcript: English Español		Christoph Treude: Automatically enhancing error messages. Transcript: English Español
	Mairieli Wessel: How people really use GitHub Actions. Transcript: English Español		Andy Zaidman: Programmer by day, tester by night. Transcript: English Español