‘If you're confident your competence shows through’

How confident are you in your study?

‘How many participants do I need for my study?’ During many years of providing statistical support to clinical researchers, this has been one of the most frequently asked questions. It is posed by medical students preparing dissertation projects through to seasoned professors preparing major grant proposals. The repetition of this question can be frustrating, but does at least indicate that the...

If you want to evaluate your library

As known, adventure and experience about lesson, entertainment, and knowledge can be gained by only reading a book. Even it is not directly done, you can know more about this life, about the world. We offer you this proper and easy way to gain those all. We offer many book collections from fictions to science at all. One of them is this if you want to evaluate your library that can be your part...

If Your Bug Database Could Talk..

We have mined the Eclipse bug and version databases to map failures to Eclipse components. The resulting data set lists the defect density of all Eclipse components. As we demonstrate in three simple experiments, the bug data set can be easily used to relate code, process, and developers to defects. The data set is publicly avail-able for download.

If Your Client is Mentally Retarded

If Your Version Control System Could Talk

Version control systems (VCSs) are used to store and reconstruct past versions of program source code. As a by-product they also capture a great deal of contextual information about each change. We will illustrate some ways to use this information to better understand a program's development history.