Tag: review
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My 2025 in software engineering
Unrelenting talk of LLMs now infests all the software ecosystems I frequent. Almost all the papers published (week) daily on the Software Engineering arXiv have an LLM themed title. Way back when I read these LLM papers, they seemed to be more concerned with doing interesting things with LLMs than doing software engineering research. Predictions…
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My 2024 in software engineering
Readers are unlikely to have noticed something that has not been happening during the last few years. The plot below shows, by year of publication, the number of papers cited (green) and datasets used (red) in my 2020 book Evidence-Based Software Engineering. The fitted red regression lines suggest that the 20s were going to be…
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Review of Embracing Modern C++ Safely by John Lakos, Vittorio Romeo, Rostislav Khlebnikov and Alisdair Meredith
Verdict: Conditionally Recommended (3/5) This is a huge book, over 1300 pages, and contains a wealth of information about all the language (not library) facilities added in C++11 and C++14. It has one "section" per language feature, and …